• ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm since it launched in November.

• The AI-powered chatbot can do everything from pass MBA exams to successfully negotiate a raise.

• If you haven't tried it yet, here's a step-by-step walkthrough of how to access and use ChatGPT.

Go to chat.openai.com in your internet browser. The site will ask you to sign up with a new account or log in if you already have one.

During peak usage times, you may not be able to access ChatGPT but you can try again another time (often later in the day) until you get in. The at-capacity notice always comes with some type of ChatGPT-generated message about the site's status, such as the guided meditation seen here.

You can also enter your email to be notified when the site is back up and running.

Once you can access the site, you can make an account using an email address, or use ChatGPT through your Google or Microsoft account. You'll need to enter your phone number later as well.

Once you're logged in, you'll see a disclaimer warning that since this is a free research preview, ChatGPT "may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content" and is "not intended to give advice."

Another disclaimer follows: Since the public's use of ChatGPT is supposed to help improve the chatbot, anything you tell it may be reviewed, so don't share anything sensitive.

Lastly, OpenAI says you can help improve ChatGPT by choosing to thumbs-up or thumbs-down any given response, or by sharing feedback on their Discord server.

After you click through that last pop-up message, you'll see ChatGPT's home page, which lists some of the chatbot's capabilities and limitations, as well as a few examples of what it can do. You can talk with ChatGPT by using the search bar at the bottom of the page.

Once you ask a question there, ChatGPT will start answering in a new chat.

If you want to modify your question, hover over it, and an icon of a pen and paper will appear to the right. Click on it, make your changes to the question, and click "Save & Submit."