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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 51, December 17, 2023, Article 6

NEW BOOK: GUIDE TO BECOMING A COIN DEALER

With help from a robot friend, Ron Guth has written A Practical Guide To Becoming A Coin Dealer. Here's the Foreword. There's no cover illustration yet, so I'd like to invite our readers to submit candidates, with or without the help of AI tools. -Editor

ChatGPT, one of the most famous AI tools on the market at present, created this entire book in less than an hour. ChatGPT (Version 3.5) took the prompt, Outline for a book titled How to Become a Coin Dealer, and created a ten chapter outline in just a few seconds. Each line in the outline became its own prompt from which ChatGPT generated entire sections in less than a minute each. The final count came to over 37,000 words. Compare this to the months it would have taken a human to write a similar book.

ChatGPT even provided alternative titles for this book, several of which were entirely appropriate, and from which the actual title was chosen.

How did ChatGPT perform? Surprisingly well in this writer's opinion. Though it took ChatGPT less than an hour to create the book, your editor spent several hours reviewing the text and adding notes. ChatGPT often repeats itself or rephrases sections, though that in itself is not bad. Good ideas should be reinforced. On the positive side, ChatGPT included several interesting topics that this writer had not even contemplated. ChatGPT has been known to hallucinate (make things up) and outright lie (make false statements), not out of evil intent but merely because of the nature and current state of the technology. In order to present the raw power and the idiosyncrasies of ChatGPT, no changes were made to the actual text or content. However, editor's notes were inserted within brackets [ ] throughout the text to correct or explain any errors or misinformation.

The end result is a book that, with the accompanying revisions, will prove to be very useful to anyone considering becoming a coin dealer. If nothing else, it illustrates the sheer power and potential of ChatGPT.

Important note: ChatGPT and the editor do not offer legal and tax advice. What may appear to be legal or tax advice in this book are guidelines only. Readers are encouraged to consult appropriate professionals for legal and tax advice.

Enjoy!

The book was published a chapter at a time on Ron's Numismatic Detective Agency blog. See the links below. -Editor

To read the complete book, see:
A Practical Guide To Becoming A Coin Dealer (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/the-business-of-coins)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 1 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guide-to-becoming-a-coin-dealer)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 2 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-2)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 3 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-3)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 4 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-4)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 5 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-5)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 6 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-6)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 7 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-7)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 8 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-8)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 9 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-9)
A Practical Guide...Chapter 10 (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guidechapter-10)
A Practical Guide...Conclusion (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/a-practical-guideconclusion)

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