ChatGPT
Simplified
So what?
I’m sure that there will be a ton of articles about it when this post comes out (and more being written about it) but I’m putting it out there through our blog mainly so I can document this historical milestone myself on our blog (and hopefully you get something out of it).
History
ChatGPT is a language model created by OpenAI. It started making waves in 2020 and has been continuing to be developed and enhanced. The model uses a technique called deep learning to understand and generate human-like text. An enormous amount of data including websites, books, articles and other literature are used by OpenAI to train its patterns and language structures. People around the world are using it for various purposes, from answering questions to writing literature.
Purpose
OpenAI developers designed ChatGPT to engage in conversations and provide responses based on the user’s inputs. The model is able to comprehend and come up with human-like responses. Users are able to interact with ChatGPT to ask questions, find information, hold discussions and ask for creative writing suggestions. ChatGPT provides various assistance, offer recommendations, share information and have conversations with its users.
Limitations
Whilst it can generate responses that sound very plausible, the information that ChatGPT provide can be misleading or factually incorrect. It also has a tendency to be verbose and overuse certain languages. The quality of responses are highly dependent on the inputs that its users provide the model. Ambiguity in queries often times lead to responses that are not correct or relevant to the inputs.
My experience
I have been using ChatGPT to do various tasks in the last couple of months. I use it to ask simple questions like “what do you call a cake with a hole in the middle?” (I couldn’t remember what it was called) and “what’s the current time in Darwin” (I was travelling). When it comes to questions that I need answers to, I’ve been using the model instead of googling. My experience has been pretty good as I get responses that are direct rather than getting a list of websites to find answers as you have to with Google. Although I’m sure there are much more sophisticated ways of using the model.
What now?
- Check out https://chat.openai.com/ and ask it a few questions to get your feet wet.
- Sign up to an account to get more out of the model (i.e. history of queries and actually get access to the model).