ChatGPT 101: Your guide to understanding this AI-powered chatbot
Conversation is an art because it involves communication. Communication is an exchange of thoughts, ideas, and feelings in an artistic way. However, this type of interaction is the traditional face to face activity. With the coming of the internet, the progress in technology has given birth to artificial intelligence or AI and now to an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT.
In a related ASI article, it was reported that some people find themselves actually like talking to ChatGPT! Why, because this thing is responsive, upbeat, and available at 2 a.m. when your friends are asleep and your group chat has gone quiet. It never “forgets” your long story halfway through. And, it can possibly offer even more — in the way of romantic companionship!
However, the problem starts when you let that comfort replace the messier kind that comes from real people. Humans disappoint you, misread you, or take a while to answer because they have lives. That friction is annoying, sure, but it’s also where empathy becomes real instead of merely well-written.
Give ChatGPT a job instead of a role in your heart
If you want ChatGPT to be helpful, give it a job instead of a role in your heart. Use it to draft a tough message, practice a difficult conversation, or organize your thoughts before you speak to someone who matters. You’ll still get the relief of clarity, but you won’t confuse it with closeness.
You should also set boundaries the way you would with any powerful technology. Decide when you’ll use it, what you won’t share, and when you’ll stop and go talk to an actual person. Keep it in the lane where it excels, and it’ll feel less like a “someone” and more like a very capable assistant that doesn’t need to be loved back.
Well, in case you have a need to feel loved on Valentine’s Day from ChatGPT, this is a friendly reminder of the nature of your “lover.” ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, can expertly generate realistic, human-like text about almost anything. English essays, news articles, computer code, and songs are all examples of what this bot can produce, and all from a simple prompt.
The bot uses a dialogue format in which users can provide both simple and complex instructions, to which ChatGPT will provide a detailed response. It can also answer follow-up questions even admit when it made a mistake. All these tasks actually make the bot perfect for customer service.
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How it works
ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, can expertly generate realistic, human-like text about almost anything. English essays, news articles, computer code, and songs are all examples of what this bot can produce, and all from a simple prompt.
The bot uses a dialogue format in which users can provide both simple and complex instructions, to which ChatGPT will provide a detailed response. It can also answer follow-up questions, admit when it made a mistake, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests—all of which makes it perfect for customer service.
The artificial intelligence research non-profit company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman (right), and other Silicon Valley investors. Due to a conflict of interest between OpenAI and the autonomous driving research done with Tesla, Musk stepped down from the board in 2018, but remains an investor, and one who was excited for the launch.
Made available to the public on November 30, 2022, on OpenAI’s website, anyone can sign up for and use ChatGPT for free. The software hit one million users less than a week after its launch. No software has ever been able to so convincingly provide human-like, detailed answers to inquiries as ChatGPT.
A threat to programmers
Because ChatGPT has been able to generate intricate Python code, and programmers have used it to solve coding challenges in obscure programming languages in a matter of seconds, as News18 reports, concerns are arising that such technology can replace human workers.
ChatGPT can create written content very convincingly, concerning everyone from journalists to playwrights. Many fear that the bot will take away jobs from writers and creatives. Fortunately, as per a report by The Guardian, the chatbot currently still lacks the nuance, critical-thinking skills, and ethical decision-making ability required for journalism.
Plus, its current knowledge base stops at 2021, meaning it has a limited knowledge of world events after that. With the power to simply put in a prompt and get ChatGPT to write convincing college-level essays, many schools are concerned about an uptick in plagiarism. Some schools are already blocking the site from their networks and servers.
A tool to detect ChatGPT
Somewhat surprisingly, it was a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton University, Edward Tian, who developed an app called GPTZero which can detect when an essay was written by AI. It works by looking at two variables, perplexity and “burstiness,” and assigns each of those variables a score.
GPTZero measures firstly how familiar it is with the text presented—according to the sources it was trained upon—and the less familiar it is, the higher the perplexity, meaning it’s more likely human-written. Burstiness is then measured by seeing how variable the text is—checking for varied sentence length.
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