What is Chat GPT and how does the AI work?
POPULAR artificial intelligence app ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm - but people are still baffled over how it works.
The success of ChatGPT has posed some pretty serious questions over the future need for certain jobs, such as writers, graphic designers and tech developers.
What is Chat GPT?
In technical terms, ChatGPT is a language model that can produce text.
What does that actually mean? It's effectively an artificial intelligence system that can create human-like text.
You can feed it a prompt, and it will create a chunk of text that continues on.
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And if it works correctly, it will read in natural language as though it was written by a human.
It's based on the GPT 3.5 model created by an AI research lab in San Francisco called Open AI.
How does the AI chatbot work?
GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
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A GPT "model" can create AI-generated content – so envision a future where robots are writing more of what you see online.
That's exactly what ChatGPT does.
And it can even hold conversations, learning from things that you've said.
You could type something simple like: "What's the best way to cook a potato?"
If you don't like the reply it gives, you could write: "No, give me a better recipe."
A prompt can even be more complicated like: "Create a personal training plan for me, based on five days at the gym per week, incorporating weightlifting and cardio, that takes about 45 minutes."
In some ways, it's like a search engine – but potentially much more powerful.
However, you should be warned that it's entirely possible ChatGPT will give you false or misleading information.
"These models were trained on vast amounts of data from the internet written by humans, including conversations, so the responses it provides may sound human-like," Open AI explained.
"It is important to keep in mind that this is a direct result of the system's design (i.e. maximizing the similarity between outputs and the dataset the models were trained on).
"And that such outputs may be inaccurate, untruthful, and otherwise misleading at times."
Open AI warns: "ChatGPT is not connected to the internet, and it can occasionally produce incorrect answers. It has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021 and may also occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content."
What can I use Chat GPT for?
The web's favourite AI bot can talk to users like a human.
This means it can write poems, give baking advice, solve complicated puzzles and so much more.
But an increasing number of tech developers and engineers have been using the AI bot as their very own virtual assistant.
While some fear that AI could soon make them redundant, there are a number of jobs that many won’t trust AI to fulfil.
While incredibly intelligent – due in part to the machine being able to digest vast amounts of data not possible by a human mind – AI is created by humans, which means human error remains one of its weaknesses.
Do all chatbots use AI?
There are two types of chatbots, and only one of them needs AI to function.
AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are able to learn and use past interactions to inform new decisions.
Each new input into an AI chatbot, including OpenAI’s model, uses each new request to do things better in the future.
It is a lot more advanced than the other type of chatbot, which is strictly rule-based.
Rule-based chatbots have only a set number of answerable questions, as its answers are essentially defined in advanced.
This means a developer has programmed the machine to give response A to question A.
It cannot deviate from that pattern, and unlike an AI-based chatbot, cannot learn or develop on its own.
Is it free to use Chat GPT?
ChatGPT is free to use currently, as it is in its initial research period.
But it may end up costing users down the line.
First, you'll first need to make an Open AI account.
You'll be able to do that when you navigate to the official ChatGPT .
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Once you're in, simply start typing prompts to get going.
You can keep your prompts in the same "conversation", or you can hit Reset Thread to start over from fresh.
Remember that ChatGPT has "memory", so it will understand what you say through the context of things you've already said in a thread.
The system tries to avoid passing judgement on things, and also has filters to avoid saying anything offensive or overly sexual.
Your conversations aren't totally private either.
"As part of our commitment to safe and responsible AI, we review conversations to improve our systems and to ensure the content complies with our policies and safety requirements," Open AI explained.
"Your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems."
ChatGPT can also be "full": if the system is busy, Open AI may block you with a message warning that the service is "at capacity".
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