With a number of AI platforms and bots competing in opposition to one another—there’s Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, to call only a few—we’re seeing new updates and upgrades seem on a frequent foundation. One of many latest additions OpenAI has pushed out to ChatGPT is named Canvas, and it is somewhat bit like an AI-powered Google Docs.
OpenAI describes it as “a new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code,” and it means you are primarily collaborating with the AI on a textual content doc or on program code. You’ll be able to already do that in the principle chat interface after all, however with Canvas it is a bit extra like having an AI coworker with you.
Proper now, you must be a ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Professional, or ChatGPT Plus consumer (from $20 a month) to entry the Canvas mannequin. You will discover it within the drop-down menu on the prime of the dialog display screen, within the prime left nook.
Getting Began With Canvas
With Canvas chosen because the AI mannequin, you can begin interacting with ChatGPT simply as you’ll usually. Use the immediate field to explain the sort of code you want to write, or the kind of textual content you want to generate. You do must say one thing to point you need a new canvas to be created although—one thing like “create a document” or “start a canvas” someplace in your immediate will do it.
When the ChatGPT Canvas interface launches in full, you will see the acquainted chat dialog on the left, and no matter it’s you are engaged on on the proper. You have received just a few completely different choices right here. You’ll be able to enter a brand new immediate to get extra textual content (or code), you possibly can manually sort in one thing your self within the canvas pane, or you possibly can choose one thing ChatGPT has generated and ask for revisions.
These completely different choices are what makes Canvas a extra collaborative mode. Up within the prime proper nook you will discover shortcuts for viewing earlier variations of your doc, or copying the textual content elsewhere. Down within the decrease proper nook, in the meantime, you will discover a pop-up toolbox that offers you a wide range of choices, relying on whether or not you are writing textual content or programming code with ChatGPT.
For those who’re writing, you’ll find instruments for suggesting edits, adjusting the size of the output ChatGPT has created, altering the studying stage of the textual content, sharpening up the written output, or including emoji to the doc. For instance, click on Studying stage, and you should use the slider to make the textual content roughly advanced.
