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Article Summary Tips for Busy Professionals

In the course of work, there are times when you need to refer to press releases for citation and information acquisition.

However, in the hustle and bustle of daily life, thoroughly reading long articles and extracting key points is not easy. How can you use ChatGPT to summarize articles and save time?


Summarizing Articles with AI

Let's assume you're summarizing the following article.


OpenAI Announces GPT-4o Launch

OpenAI, a global leader in AI research and development, has officially released a new multimodal AI model, GPT-4o. GPT-4o is capable of integrating text, audio, image, and video, and is the first model to offer real-time response speed.

Compared to existing models, GPT-4o has significantly improved performance in processing non-English text and also excels in visual and auditory recognition. The model can generate text, image, and audio outputs, with an average response time of 320 milliseconds, close to human conversation levels.

Additionally, GPT-4o is equipped with the capability to process text, audio, image, and video inputs in real-time. It provides high-speed responses with an average response time of 320 milliseconds and outperforms GPT-4 Turbo in non-English text processing. Despite these enhancements, the cost of using the API is 50% lower than that of the existing GPT-4 model, maximizing cost efficiency.

An OpenAI spokesperson stated, "GPT-4o was developed with the goal of more natural human-computer interaction, maximizing efficiency, and halving the API usage cost."



How to Summarize Articles

When summarizing an article, it's important to specify how concise the summary should be (e.g., 1 sentence, 2-3 sentences, 5 key points) and in what format the summary should be provided (e.g., list, paragraph, table).

Providing context on how the summarized information will be used is also beneficial.

Example of an Article Summary Prompt
### Instructions
Summarize the key five points from the article below
and present them in a table format.

The summary will be utilized for meeting materials.

### Article Content
(Insert Article Content)

If the summary is too general, it’s effective to specify the level of detail you want, such as by asking for the inclusion of specific numbers and statistics.

Example of Providing Feedback on a Summary
The summary lacks specific figures.

Please include information such as GPT-4o being 50% cheaper.

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