ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has taken the world by storm with its seemingly unlimited capabilities as a poet, besserwisser, ghostwriter - or confident bullshitter. Now we all wonder: How can we best use this technology? Are there things to look out for?

In this presentation we are first going to explore the concepts behind the GPT technology and figure out what has made it so successful. Next we are going to discuss how the GPT models can be used in practice, where topic classification and sentiment analysis of political tweets will be used as a case study.