ChatGPT (2022- ) is an AI chatbot, a computer program in a machine that can hold a conversation with a human. It can answer questions, write student essays, poems, even write computer code that works. At least 200 books being sold on Amazon were written or co-written by it. It is the Homework Machine come true. It can easily pass the Turing Test – most people cannot tell the difference between something written by ChatGPT and something written by a human.
Microsoft is using it to make Bing, their also-ran Internet search engine, better than Google’s. But Google and Baidu (the top search engine in China) are working on AI chatbots of their own.
Noam Chomsky calls ChatGPT “high-tech plagiarism”.
It is a glorified autocomplete program – one trained on billions of words of English from the Internet and then fine-tuned by humans. Even though it can talk like a human, even express love or make scary threats, it has no thoughts or feelings. It does not even understand what it is saying. It just knows what the most probable next words are in a conversation. It is like a supercomputerized parrot.
It cannot tell true from false. It is like the game Two Truths and a Lie. Which makes it terrible for Internet searches or student essays. It says wonderful things about me, Abagond, for example, but not all of it is true. Because it all boils down to mere guesswork.
Test scores:
- SAT: 1020
- IQ: 83
That is my take in 241 words.
Now let’s ask ChatGPT itself:
Abagond: What is ChatGPT in 241 words?
ChatGPT: ChatGPT is a highly advanced language model developed by OpenAI that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like responses to natural language input. It is based on a transformer architecture, which allows it to model long-range dependencies between words and generate highly coherent and fluent text.
To train ChatGPT, OpenAI used a massive dataset of text from the internet, including books, articles, and websites. This allowed the model to learn patterns and relationships in language at an unprecedented scale, enabling it to understand and produce text in a wide range of domains and styles.
One of the key strengths of ChatGPT is its flexibility and adaptability. It can be fine-tuned on specific tasks and domains, such as language translation, summarization, or question answering. This makes it a highly versatile tool for natural language processing (NLP) applications.
ChatGPT is also highly scalable, meaning that it can be trained on even larger datasets as they become available. This allows it to continually improve its performance over time and stay at the cutting edge of NLP research.
While ChatGPT is a remarkable achievement in the field of artificial intelligence, it is important to recognize that it has limitations and can sometimes produce biased or inaccurate responses. Therefore, it is important to use ChatGPT responsibly and to apply critical thinking when evaluating its outputs. Ultimately, ChatGPT is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform how we interact with machines and understand human language.
It can even write its own press release!
– Abagond, 2023.
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its a good tool to collect and summarize the vast info on the net—making it an easy first step when looking into particular subjects. That shortens/saves time when looking in-depth into a subject/topic. Not all info is correct—but then that is the case for the internet anyway….one has to use ones own intelligence and discernment….
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