Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Welcome to GPT for the Family Tree!

Now I'm pretty adept at thinking up catchy names but I'm definitely not as quick as ChatGPT 2.5! I prompted "Come up with puns using or related to AI and genealogy for a new blog" and my first choice from the list was "Relative Intelligence" but it was already taken for a URL. This one, "GPT for the Family Tree" was not taken so there we go. I needed a place where I could share the latest as I learn about it. 

Yesterday, Steve Little posted in Blaine Bettinger's "Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI)" Facebook group (join the group if you're a genealogist) about Professor Ethan Mollick's blog post at One Useful Thing on a guide to AI apps. I subscribe to ChatGPT so I found the post extremely helpful to change my setting to "Thinking". I am a patient person (except for awaiting DNA results) so appreciate the "extra" that comes with the "Thinking" mode. I've included a  screenshot where you can toggle the drop-down between the different modes. The default mode is "Auto". Professor Mollick's post is also helpful in knowing what features you receive with the free AI app versions. I am quite irritated with the misspellings that I see in Google Gemini's images and will not subscribe until it is upgraded to a better standard where those don't occur.

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