What is ChatGPT and how does the AI work?

FANS of artificial intelligence are going wild for a new app called ChatGPT – and it’s seriously impressive.

The mind-blowing app can talk to you like a human, write poems, give you baking advice, solve complicated puzzles and so much more.

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What is ChatGPT?

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.

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.

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.”

How to use ChatGPT

To use ChatGPT, you’ll first need to make an Open AI account.

You’ll be able to do that when you navigate to the official ChatGPT website.

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.

ChatGPT is currently free to use during its initial research preview.

But it may end up costing you money down the line.

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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