ChatGPT pro subscription- I have been using the PRO version wrong

[GON]

About six months ago, a friend recommended I subscribe at a rate of about $200 per month for CHATGPT PRO.

I went with the recommendation as I am working on two distinct key tasks that may have a lifelong impact. I was happy with the CHATGPT results.

What I discovered four days ago- I was using the "instant" version of CHATGPT. There is a separate dropdown for CHATGPT PRO.

Wow- pro takes 20 +/- minutes to provide a response, but wow what awesome responses the PRO version is providing. Documents I would spend hours trying to tweak/ improve... don't need any significant revisions.

Simply sharing my wrong use of CHATGPT PRO, might be a few other knuckleheads like me paying for a pro product, but using the free product.

 

[Hohn]

Well, in your defense, they are engineering the interfaces to default to low-demand usage to try to lower token count.

In other words, they first make you pay a hefty subscription, then make you consciously exercise what you paid for.

 

[GSCJR]

My wife who only works part-time, just discovered that her work-issued laptop does not have Copilot, but her colleagues do; strange.

 

[The Critic]

My wife who only works part-time, just discovered that her work-issued laptop does not have Copilot, but her colleagues do; strange.

The licenses can be $$.

 

[Hall]

My wife who only works part-time, just discovered that her work-issued laptop does not have Copilot, but her colleagues do; strange.

Tell her to update any one of her installed MS applications (Outlook, Word, etc). Microsoft is continually enabling things, disabling things, adding features, removing features via Office 365. I really doubt the IT group has hers configured any differently than anyone else's.

 

[wwillson]

I really doubt the IT group has hers configured any differently than anyone else's.

Our IT group did, if we weren't using Copilot, they would disable it.

 

[GSCJR]

Teams also disappeared and therefore an inquiry was sent to IT. After some conversations about ad-ons they managed to get Teams back. Not long after getting assistance from IT, the laptop forced a restart and Teams has disappeared again. As @The Critic mentioned, the lack of Copilot appears to be a licensing thing according to IT, and no ChatGPT Pro yet.

 

[bdc101]

Many organizations are not putting Copilot on workstations for intellectual property reasons, too. Anything you put into Copilot becomes something that Copilot uses for its own purposes and can often end up being used to generate answers for people outside your organization. (For example, at my company they have released it for only half of the company, which is the half that doesn't deal with clients who are concerned about IP.)