As we read more and more news of ChatGPT passing the Wharton MBA exam, US Medical licensing exam, and the bar exam, fears of Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacing doctors, lawyers, or business professionals, are also spreading fast.
And then more News comes in:
- January 18th 2023: Microsoft announces 10,000 employees will be terminated
- January 23rd 2023: Microsoft to invest $10,000,000,000 into ChatGPT
- January 24th 2023: CEO Satya Nadella announces plans to roll out across all Microsoft products.
What is ChatGPT?
OpenAI has
trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.
Launched on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT is trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) on an Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure, is the latest step in OpenAI’s iterative deployment of increasingly safe and useful AI systems, achieved by the use of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3) is a state-of-the-art language processing AI model developed by OpenAI. It is capable of generating human-like text and has a wide range of applications, including language translation, language modelling, and generating text for applications such as chatbots. It is one of the largest and most powerful language processing AI models to date, with 175 billion parameters. Its most common use so far is creating ChatGPT - a highly capable chatbot.
With its 175 billion parameters, ChatGPT is restricted to language, and its abilities include everything from writing poems about sentient farts and cliché rom-coms in alternate universes, through to explaining quantum mechanics in simple terms or writing full-length research papers and articles.
However, ChatGPT's training data cuts off in 2021 (what ChatGPT does not know).
And unlike Google, ChatGPT doesn't crawl the web for information on current events, which means that it is completely unaware of current events, trends, or anything that happened after its training. It can only generate responses based on its own internal knowledge and logic. (see link)
ChatGPT is changing everything. The AI chatbot has proven to be very capable of technical tasks, such as writing and coding. But it can't do everything - yet. But it still has its limits.
It's a tool that could make each better if used properly.
Don't fear technology.
Learn to use it.
