Ever since OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT, a new model for conversational artificial intelligence (AI), social media has been abuzz with discussions about the possibilities -- and dangers -- of this new innovation, ranging from its ability to debug code to its potential to write essays for college students.
What makes ChatGPT so interesting?
ChatGPT is the perfect storm of two current hot AI topics: chatbots and the third generation of generative pre-trained transformer technology, or GPT3. Together, they offer a wonderfully intriguing method of interacting with and producing content that sounds amazingly human. Each is the result of separate, significant improvements over the last five years in their respective technologies.
Chatbots allow interaction in a seemingly "intelligent" conversational manner, while GPT3 produces output that appears to have "understood" the question, the content and the context. Together this creates an uncanny effect: Is it human or is it a computer? Or, is it a human-like computer? The interaction is sometimes humorous, sometimes profound and sometimes insightful.
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