OpenAI made ChatGPT, an AI that answers complex questions in a conversational way and can answer long-form questions.
It’s a very important piece of technology because it can learn what people mean when they ask a question.
Many users are amazed by how well it can answer questions like a person. This makes them think that it might be able to change how people use computers and how information is found in the future.
Key takeaways
- ChatGPT came out just last year, but it is already changing many different industries. Google’s management team has called a “code red” because of its release.
- OpenAI, a San Francisco-based startup, made the chatbot. Microsoft gave OpenAI another $10 billion as the big tech companies get more competitive in the field of AI.
- Some people like ChatGPT, but others worry about the effects this tool will have on education and other fields. We look at what could come next for this technology that is changing the world.
You’ve probably heard about ChatGPT, a groundbreaking new tool that has been in the news a lot since it came out at the end of last year. The AI-powered chatbot comes up with answers based on what the user says. Users have used ChatGPT for everything from writing poems to getting help with their homework. Some people think that ChatGPT is a direct threat to Google’s $149 billion search engine business, which Google has led for years. Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI has been extended, and the company has put $10 billion into the deal.
What is ChatGPT?
In simple terms, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can be used for many different things and creates content using AI. It can basically make a response or answer to anything you want, whether it’s based on facts or feelings.
The website suggests that you ask the chatbot a question or make a request, and it will then give you a response. At a basic level, you can ask ChatGPT to do almost anything, like write an email to your boss for you or answer a fact-based question, like explaining a geographical event.
How does ChatGPT work?
As we’ve already said, the bot can be used to do anything from answer simple questions to have philosophical conversations to help you think of wedding gift ideas. It’s also possible to be very specific. For example, you could use a Lady Gaga quote to make a birthday message for your sister. People have also said that you could use it to write long essays or articles if you gave it enough information or a word count.
What have people on social media said about ChatGPT?
It’s safe to say that ChatGPT has gotten a lot of attention on social media, especially from people trying out the conversation-based bot to see what kinds of answers it can give.
Some people like the device a lot and praise its ability to use logic and come up with good answers, but others have questioned its ability to check facts and its math skills because some of the answers haven’t been very reliable.
Still, it might be interesting to see what the future holds.
What are the limits of ChatGPT?
Even though ChatGPT looks very impressive, it still has some problems. Some of these limitations include not being able to answer questions that are phrased in a certain way because the input question needs to be rephrased to understand it. A bigger problem is that the answers it gives aren’t very good. Sometimes they sound plausible but don’t make sense in real life, or they’re too long.
The model doesn’t ask for clarification when you ask a question that isn’t clear. Instead, it just guesses what you mean, which can lead to answers you didn’t expect. Because of this, developer question-and-answer site, StackOverflow has already banned ChatGPT responses to questions, at least for now.
In a post, Stack Overflow moderators say, “The main problem is that even though ChatGPT’s answers are often wrong, they usually look like they might be right, and they’re very easy to make.” Critics say that these tools are only good at putting words in an order that makes sense from a statistical point of view, but they can’t figure out what the words mean or if the things they say are true.
The fact that ChatGPT’s data only goes up to 2021 is another big problem. The chatbot doesn’t know anything about what’s been going on or what’s in the news since then. So, if you ask it something like, “Who won the World Cup in 2022?” it won’t tell you.
Can I use ChatGPT to talk?
Even though some people use ChatGPT for really complicated things like writing code or even malware, you can also use it for simple things like having a conversation with a friend.
“I’m hungry, what should I eat?” is a simple way to start a conversation. “What do you think happens when you die?” or “What do you think happens when you die?” No matter what, ChatGPT will be able to help you.
Why does ChatGPT make some people worry?
People are worried that AI chatbots will replace humans or make them less smart. For example, the chatbot can quickly (but not necessarily accurately) write an article on any topic in seconds, which could replace the need for a human writer. The chatbot can also write a full essay in seconds, which makes it easier for students to cheat or not learn how to write properly. Because of this, some school districts have blocked it.
A second worry about the AI chatbot is that it might spread false information. Since the bot isn’t connected to the internet, the information it shares could be wrong.
The bot says, “My answers are not meant to be taken as facts, and I always tell people to check any information they get from me or anywhere else.” OpenAI also says that ChatGPT sometimes gives “answers that sound plausible but are wrong or don’t make sense.”
Is there a tool that can read ChatGPT text?
The need for a ChatGPT text detector is becoming clearer as people worry that students will use ChatGPT to cheat. OpenAI, the AI research company that made ChatGPT, put out a free tool that doesn’t work perfectly to solve this problem. The “classifier” tool from OpenAI can only correctly label 26% of AI-written text as “likely AI-written.” Also, it gives false positives 9% of the time by mistaking work written by humans for work written by AI.
On the market, you can also find AI detectors like the GPT-2 Output Detector, the Writer AI Content Detector, and the Content at Scale AI Content Detection. But when ZDNET tried out all three of these tools, the results were not very good. All three of the tools were found to be bad ways to find AI because they gave false negatives over and over again. Here are all of the tests that ZDNet did.
Is ChatGPT something good or bad?
ChatGPT is a sophisticated chatbot that could make people’s lives easier and help them with mundane tasks like writing emails or searching the web for answers. Before it’s widely used, though, there are some technical details that need to be worked out so that bad things don’t happen, like the spread of false information. Most of the time, AI and ML models need a lot of training and fine-tuning to work well.
Does that mean AI is going to take over the world? Maybe not yet, but OpenAI’s Altman is sure that AI is not that far away from being as smart as a human. Altman tweeted in response to Musk’s comment about AI that could be dangerous: “I agree that we are getting close to dangerously strong AI, such as one that poses a huge risk to cybersecurity. I think we could have real AGI in the next 10 years, so we need to take that risk very seriously as well.”
Also, he said: “It’s interesting to see people start to argue about whether powerful AI systems should act the way their users want them to or the way their creators want them to. One of the most important debates ever will be about whose values we should base these systems on.”
Are there alternatives to ChatGPT that you might want to think about?
Even though ChatGPT is the chatbot that everyone is talking about right now, there are plenty of other options that are just as good and might even be better for your needs. Even though ChatGPT has a lot of features, there are some big problems with it, like the fact that its free version is often full. If you want to try out the world of AI chatbots and writers, you have a lot of options, such as YouChat, Jasper, and Chatsonic.
Is ChatGPT smart enough to pass an MBA test?
In short, yes. A professor at Wharton, the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, used ChatGPT to take an MBA exam, and the results were very good.
ChatGPT not only passed the test, but also got a B to B-, which is a great score. The professor, Christian Terwiesch, liked that it had questions and explanations about basic operations management and process analysis.
What role does Microsoft play in ChatGPT?
Even before ChatGPT was released to the public, Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI, the AI research company that made ChatGPT. Microsoft first helped OpenAI in 2019 when it put $1 billion into it. In the years that followed, it put in another $2 billion. In January, Microsoft made a long-term, multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI as part of its partnership with the company.
Bloomberg says that sources say the investment will be worth $10 billion over several years. Neither company said how much it was worth. In exchange, OpenAI will use Microsoft’s Azure service as its only cloud computing provider for all of its research, products, and API services.
Will ChatGPT start charging for its services soon?
Since February 1, ChatGPT has had a paid service called ChatGPT Plus. With the popularity of chatbots going through the roof, it was only a matter of time before OpenAI started charging for subscriptions.
The pro plan gives users full access even when the free version is full, which has been happening a lot lately. Users will also get answers more quickly and be able to use new features and improvements first. The cost of the premium services is $20 per month.
Before the official release, there were rumors that a paid version would soon be available. In January, OpenAI said on its Discord server that it was thinking about making a version of ChatGPT called “ChatGPT Professional” that would cost money.
OpenAI put up a waitlist on Discord for people who want to use the pro service. The waitlist said that the new service would give users always-on service (no blackout windows), quick responses from ChatGPT, and the ability to send as many messages as they want. Even though we don’t know how much this service will cost, one of the survey questions on the waitlist form asks how much the user would be willing to pay per month for ChatGPT Pro.
A user with early access posted a video to Twitter of the pro version running a test prompt much faster than the free version that the rest of the public has access to. Khawaja said in the video that his subscription cost $42 per month. Now we know that OpenAI’s real price for this plan is a little more than half of what it costs early access users.
Conclusion
Even though ChatGPT is an interesting new tool that should be looked into, we still don’t know what its long-term effects will be. If you’ve been investing in AI, you know that 2018 has been a tough year for big tech companies. We recently looked at some of the best AI stocks and found that a lot of publicly traded companies had big drops in 2022. Even so, we will keep an eye on how ChatGPT affects the tech industry.
