12-05-2022 , 05:55 PM
Quote:A lot of people have been taking to the internet to discuss their experiences with OpenAI’s latest innovative product, ChatGPT ever since it launched on Wednesday November 30. What is striking about these people, is not just how many of them there are, but who they are. We have heard from many different types of respected experts including physicists, programmers and developers, start-up founders, AI researchers, and more. Many have been blown away by their experiences with the new AI chatbot; some have even lined it up alongside other technological innovations like the PC, the internet, and smartphones. Let’s look at what has been going on, what the ChatGPT is capable of, and a few of the issues and problems related to the technology.
ChatGPT is a new chatbot that has been developed by OpenAI, the AI specialists who have also developed other well-known and impressive AI tools such as DALL-E 2. It has been developed to interact with human prompts in a dialogue format that makes it possible to have open-ended conversations that can almost feel human. In just over 5 days, it has reached 1 million users and, at the time of writing, is currently at capacity meaning OpenAI’s servers can’t accept new users.
As the model has been trained on vast datasets it has a broad depth of knowledge, which makes it able to converse on all manner of subjects and even offer feedback on computer code and suggest new lines of code based on a user’s text prompts. It is this openness that has been blowing people’s minds as their imaginations run wild based on the seemingly omnipotent powers of the new chatbot.
Following a 20-minute conversation on the history of modern physics, one CEO and former physicist believes that we can now basically re-invent the concept of education at scale and even proclaims that colleges, as we know them now, will cease to exist. Other users have proclaimed that Google is done when comparing the quality of output between ChatGPT and a Google search and others have even developed a Chrome plugin that will serve up a ChatGPT response to every Google search you make. Another user explained how he used the tool to develop a weight loss plan, which includes a calorie target, a workout plan, tailored meal plans, and even a grocery list of all the ingredients needed to follow it. Other interesting uses that have been popping up include asking it to create prompts to generate AI art using the text-to-image AI generators that have been proliferating recently and an ingenious way of generating both a list of SEO blog titles and then the articles themselves.
Things can get abstract too when talking with ChatGPT, both through the scale of the information used to train it and feedback loop rabbit holes that come into play when asking it to imagine virtual things and virtual worlds. For example, one developer, familiar with Linux coding, was able to create a virtual machine within ChatGPT that was able to create and serve files, program, and even browse the internet. Taking it to the logical conclusion, for a particular type of brain at least, he, via the virtual machine, went to the OpenAI website and interacted with ChatGPT and created a virtual machine on the virtual machine he had created. A rather ingenious 11-year-old was also able to use ChatGPT to create virtual worlds and even build text-based adventures out of them by prompting the tool to act as a text-based Harry Potter video game and offer 4 potential responses to the scenes it created.
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