What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a large-scale language model trained by OpenAI, whose purpose is to be able to interact with humans in a natural, human-like manner. ChatGPT is based on deep learning technology, using millions of text data from the Internet for training in order to understand and generate natural language.
ChatGPT can be used for a variety of different tasks, such as: automatic question answering, text generation, language translation, and more. It can understand the meaning of the information entered by the user and respond accordingly, thereby providing an intelligent dialogue experience. ChatGPT has been widely used in many practical application scenarios, including customer service robots, intelligent voice assistants, etc.
Besides these applications, ChatGPT has many other potential uses. For example, it can help people better understand and process natural language data, thus playing an important role in scientific research, business decision-making, etc. The emergence of ChatGPT has greatly promoted the development of natural language processing technology and brought new possibilities to the field of artificial intelligence.
What's so special about it?
ChatGPT is powered by a Large Language Model (LLM), which means it is programmed to understand human language and generate responses based on a large database.
ChatGPT's LLM is called GPT-3.5. This is an upgrade of the OpenAI GPT-3 language model.
With 175 billion parameters, GPT-3 is one of the largest and most powerful AI models for language processing to date.
What makes ChatGPT impressive is its ability to generate human-like responses, thanks in large part to the vast amount of data it was trained on.
Jeffrey Wong, global chief innovation officer at professional services firm EY, told CNBC: "What's exciting is that people are responding more and more like people, so you're seeing things that we didn't think computers could do before. do things."
Another feature of ChatGPT is its ability to record the context of a user's earlier message in a thread and use it to form a response later in the conversation.
Why is it so popular?
No generative AI application has ever reached the reach and virality ChatGPT has.
It was the talk of countless companies and the business community at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month. Chinese tech giant Baidu has produced its own version, dubbed Ernie Bot.
According to a tweet from Altman on Dec. 5, the chatbot had 1 million sign-ups within five days of its launch. By January, ChatGPT had amassed 100 million monthly active users just two months after its launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer app in history, according to a UBS report released last week.
It took TikTok nine months to reach 100 million users, Instagram two and a half years.
Jan. 31 was ChatGPT's biggest day ever, with a record 28 million daily visits to its site, according to Similarweb. This is a 165% increase from a month ago.
Daily global visits to the OpenAI website and its ChatGPT platform
November 2022-February 2023
One reason for ChatGPT's popularity is its accessibility. The service is open to anyone through the OpenAI website, and its potential applications range from school assignments to legal briefs.
Timing also played a role, according to Huang.
“When we come out of a pandemic, you usually see this burst of creativity,” he said. "The biggest example is that after the black plague, there was a renaissance, a full-scale explosion of creativity."
Why ChatGPT Is Scaring Global Tech Giants
Microsoft is betting billions of dollars on ChatGPT owner OpenAI. In late January, the tech giant announced a multi-year, multibillion-dollar investment deal with OpenAI.
Microsoft declined to disclose the exact amount. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant is in talks to invest $10 billion in the company, according to a Semafor report. Microsoft previously invested $1 billion in OpenAI.
On Tuesday, Microsoft held a press conference to announce new AI-powered updates to its Bing search engine and Edge browser. Altman confirmed that Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's GPT-3.5 language technology into Bing.
The day after, Google plans to start rolling out Bard in Google Search in the coming weeks.
ChatGPT is seen as a threat to Google. Instead of turning to the web search pioneer, people can rely on ChatGPT to solve their most pressing problems.
In fact, Google launched its own large-scale language model Lamda as early as 2021, laying the foundation for advanced conversational artificial intelligence games. It missed the opportunity to launch its own consumer product based on Lamda, and hopes to change that with language model-driven Bard.
How good is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT has its limitations. Chatbot responses may contain factual inaccuracies. For example, it can make up historical names and books that don't exist, or fail to solve certain math problems.
"The openness of these models is a double-edged sword," Will Williams, vice president of machine learning at British artificial intelligence startup Speechmatics, told CNBC.
"On the one hand, interactions are highly flexible and fluid, enabling engaging conversations on almost any topic. On the other hand, you never know when a model is in contact with reality, and you don't hallucinate with overconfidence."
ChatGPT Knowledge is still limited to 2021 data, but may improve over time. Looking ahead, ChatGPT is expected to be a precursor to more advanced AI systems.
For now, experts say generative AI is not yet capable of achieving human-like "general" intelligence.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is often considered the holy grail of the AI world. It most commonly refers to the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can perform.
A host of companies, from OpenAI to Google's DeepMind, are hoping to make it happen.
The possibility of GPT-3 has sparked excitement about GPT-4, OpenAI's next-generation LLM model.
To lower expectations, OpenAI's Altman hit back at the hype surrounding GPT-4, saying in a recent interview with StrictlyVC that people are "begging for disappointment"
