If you haven't heard of ChatGPT, the incredible new chatbot from artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, here's a quick primer on everything you need to know about this controversial new program.
What is chat GPT?
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that allows users to generate raw text. You can ask it questions, give it creative prompts, and use it to generate a whole bunch of different things — from poems, songs, essays, to short stories.
When did ChatGPT come out and where did it come from?
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI and launched last November. OpenAI, founded in part by Elon Musk, is an organization dedicated to research and development in artificial intelligence. OpenAI has many other controversial investors, such as right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who provided substantial financial assistance to the organization when it was first established. OpenAI is run by CEO Sam Altman, who is also the organization's founder.
How do you use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is really easy to use. To get set up, you need to create an OpenAI account. It's easy to do and just requires you to provide an email address and a phone number. After that, you'll be able to use ChatGPT and other tools from the company, such as the DALL E 2, an AI art tool that creates illustrations based on text prompts.
Like normal chatbots, ChatGPT includes a text field where you can enter questions or commands. Give the chatbot a hint and it will respond.
For example, you can ask: "ChatGPT, why is the sky blue?" or "How do I build a birdhouse" or order it "Write me a Raymond Chandler story about McDonald's Hamburglar .” This chatbot can do almost anything, so get creative.
How does ChatGPT work?
ChatGPT is powered by a complex algorithm called a large language model. These algorithms are fed large amounts of textual data and then allowed to respond to prompts in a realistic, human-like way, a computing system known as natural language processing.
Who is ChatGPT suitable for?
Almost anyone can use ChatGPT! As soon as you set up an account on OpenAI, you are good to go.
Are ChatGPT's answers always correct?
Won't. In fact, the platform is known for making up a lot of content, and its answers are often wrong. If you plan to rely on ChatGPT for your essay or article, you will want to fact-check everything it says.
Does ChatGPT charge?
The current answer to this question is: it depends on how much chatting you want to do with ChatGPT.
In the first few months of its launch, ChatGPT was free to use, but OpenAI has been clear that it intends to monetize the chatbot. On February 1, the premium service was announced. Called ChatGPT Plus, users can pay $20 per month if they want to try it out. Benefits include "priority access to new features and improvements" and access to chatbots "even during peak hours," as ChatGPT has been known to crash due to epidemics.
However, you can still use the free version (!!!) of ChatGPT, so no subscription is required unless you have big plans for the chatbot.
What is "generative artificial intelligence"?
The term "generative artificial intelligence" refers to the emerging industry and technology field involving artificial intelligence, of which ChatGPT is a major part.
Besides chatbots, what other things can generative AI do?
Generative AI is said to have diverse applications, including creating art, replicating elements of video production, simulating human actors and voices, and other roles based on the knowledge economy and creative industries.
Having trouble with ChatGPT?
While ChatGPT is exciting users, there are many concerns about how the platform and others of its kind will impact existing industries and educational institutions such as universities and high schools. Some concerns include that ChatGPT may...
- instead of human writers
- Generating untrue news articles (already happened)
- Sparking a new typhoon of disinformation with easily generated text
- Democratizes cybercrime and helps drive malware
- fire a lot of people
- …there are more!
What will happen to ChatGPT in the future?
We're not sure about this, but suffice it to say that OpenAI seems well-positioned for future success. Microsoft recently announced plans to invest as much as $10 billion in the AI-focused organization and launched a beta version of a ChatGPT integration for its search engine Bing. The integration is called "Prometheus", which is also the name of the man who fell from the sky and the bad sequel to the movie "Alien".
What are the controversies about ChatGPT?
Not all news about ChatGPT and AI chatbots is good. In fact, there's been quite a bit of controversy surrounding the rollout of these programs. Some of the most bizarre events so far include:
Bing's ChatGPT integration Prometheus was recently discovered to have a strange alter ego, "Sydney". "Clearly a remnant of the earlier show, Sydney acts like an aggressive, paranoid jerk spitting out really crazy stuff at users. She lies! She calculates! She's a bad communicator and a jerk everywhere! Worth it Thankfully, Microsoft decided to get Sydney out of the woods with some apparent code updates.
In one ironic twist, a college student recently used ChatGPT to cheat in an AI ethics class. It was
recently discovered that major tech outlet CNET has been using generated A similar AI program (not ChatGPT) was used to write a large number of financial explanation articles. The publication initially did not disclose that these articles were written by non-humans, which caused controversy. A judge in Colombia recently decided to
deploy ChatGPT to help determine autism. The fate of children's health insurance, this is the first apparent instance of automatic justice. OK!
More scandals will surely follow. This is new technology after all, and as is usually the case in the US, it is completely unregulated of.
Who are ChatGPT's competitors?
While ChatGPT may be the first AI chatbot to capture the hearts and minds of Americans, it certainly won't be the last. In fact, since OpenAI launched its small app last November, other big tech platforms have launched their own versions of the same technology. So far, we've heard...
Google has announced a ChatGPT competitor, dubbed "Bard." Bard got off to a rocky start when it launched in early February, spewing some misinformation during its demo.