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By Martin Stut, 2023-09-23
Install GPT4All and let it rewrite your text by choosing a suitable model and prompt, as demonstrated in this article. (Updated for GPT4All 2.5.2 2023-11-24)
You speak and write some English, but not near native quality. But you need to publish English texts, even if just as a chat message to a team. You can’t run each chat message by a native speaker friend, because they have lots of other things to do. So you are looking for machine help.
Let AI do the job. AI is said to be occasionally hallucinating about facts and conclusions, but it’s good about grammar and spelling. So you create the content and AI can adjust the words.
Someone said, “AI is like a parrot and a text mechanic.” That’s what I’m trying to use it for. Comparable to a pocket calculator in Mathematics. Not a supercomputer or Wolfram Alpha, but a pocket calculator.
Because your content may not be public, eg. intended for an internal message within your organization, you cannot use online services like Grammarly. Therefore, you must utilize a locally running AI. A colleague pointed me to GPT4All.io . Their smaller models run on computers with as little as 8 GB of RAM, while the larger models require 16 GB. You don’t need a GPU; the standard CPU of your desktop/notebook computer is sufficient. GPT4All supports all major operating systems: Linux, Mac, Windows.
Note: Do this when you have good, unmetered Internet connectivity. The models are approximately 3-8 gigabytes each to download.
If you want to experiment with other models, repeat step 6.
If you want to download only one model, choose “Mistral Instruct”.
[INST]Please correct any grammatical or spelling errors in this text
while staying as close to the original content as possible.
Do not consider the context when making your corrections
and only provide the revised version.
%1 [/INST]
To check another sentence or paragraph, just repeat from step 3.
GPT4All can help you improve your English communication by providing grammar and spelling corrections for your written text. This tool uses artificial intelligence to identify errors in your writing and suggest corrected versions. You can use this app daily as a part of your writing routine.