Yahoo Finance's Allie Garfinkle discusses how to use OpenAI's chatbot and how more users are turning to AI for everything from coding to recipe-writing.

This article provides detailed prompts and tests you can repeat on your favorite AI chatbot to see if it can help you program reliably.

A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 2023, Section B, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: How should I use A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT?.