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ChatGPT
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Record breaking
over 100 million users
2. ChatGPT
(Chat Generative Pre-Trained
Transformer)
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and
launched on November 30, 2022.
It is notable for enabling users to refine and steer a conversation
towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language
used. Successive prompts and replies are taken into account at each
stage of the conversation as a context.
While its content spans various domains of knowledge.
ChatGPT has displayed a tendency to confidently provide inaccurate
information also.
3. By January 2023, it had become the fastest-growing consumer
software application in history, gaining over 100 million users
and contributing to OpenAI's valuation growing to US$29 billion.
Within months, Google, Baidu, and Meta accelerated
development of their competing products: PaLM-E, Ernie Bot,
and LLaMA.
Some observers expressed concern over the potential of
ChatGPT to displace or atrophy human intelligence, and its
potential to enable plagiarism or fuel misinformation.
4. According to the latest available data, ChatGPT
currently has over 100 million users.
The website currently generates 1.8 billion
visitors per month.
This user and traffic growth was achieved in a
record-breaking three-month period (from
February 2023 to April 2023).
5. ChatGPT is built upon GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, from OpenAI's
proprietary series of foundational GPT models.
These large language models (LLMs)have been fine-tuned for
conversational applications using a combination of supervised
and reinforcement learning techniques.
ChatGPT was released as a freely available research preview,
but due to its popularity, OpenAI now operates the service on a
freemium model.
It allows users on its free tier to access the GPT-3.5 based
version, while the more-advanced GPT-4 based version, as well
as priority access to newer features, are provided to paid
subscribers under the commercial name "ChatGPT Plus".
6. Features
Although the core function of a chatbot is to mimic a
human conversationalist, ChatGPT is versatile.
Among countless examples, it can write and debug
computer programs, compose music, teleplays, fairy
tales and student essays, answer test questions
(sometimes, depending on the test, at a level above
the average human test-taker), generate business
ideas, write poetry and song lyrics, translate and
summarize text, emulate a Linux system, simulate
entire chat rooms, play games like tic-tac-toe, or
simulate an ATM.
7. Limitations
OpenAI acknowledges that ChatGPT "sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or
nonsensical answers".
This behavior is common to large language models and is called "hallucination".
The reward model of ChatGPT, designed around human oversight, can be over-optimized and thus
hinder performance, in an example of an optimization pathology known as Goodhart's law.
ChatGPT has limited knowledge of events that occurred after September 2021.
In training ChatGPT, human reviewers preferred longer answers, regardless of actual
comprehension or factual content.
Training data also suffers from algorithmic bias, which may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to
prompts including descriptors of people.
In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap indicating that women and scientists of color were
inferior to white male scientists.