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Imagine Siri writing you a college essay or Alexa spitting out a Shakespearean-style movie review.
OpenAI last week opened up access to ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with users in an incredibly persuasive and conversational manner. His ability users were amazed, including providing long, thoughtful and comprehensive answers to questions and prompts – even if they were imprecise. academics and some in the technology industry.
The tool is fast it went viral. On Monday, Open AI co-founder Sam Altman, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, said on Twitter at ChatGPT. passed one million users🇧🇷 It has also caught the attention of some well-known tech leaders like Box CEO Aaron Levie.
“There’s a certain feeling when a new technology changes the way you think about computing. Google did it. Firefox did it. AWS did it. The iPhone did it. OpenAI does this with ChatGPT,” Levie he said on Twitter.
But as with other AI-powered tools, it raises potential concerns, including how it could disrupt creative industries, perpetuate prejudice and spread misinformation.
ChatGPT is a large language model trained on an online dataset to generate its answers. It comes from the same company behind DALL-E, which creates a seemingly infinite number of images in response to users’ requests. It is also the next iteration of the text generator GPT-3.
after Register for ChatGPT, users can ask the AI system to ask a series of questions, such as “Who was the president of the United States in 1955,” or to summarize difficult concepts into something a second grader could understand. He even asked “What is the meaning of life?” will also solve open questions. or “What should I wear if it’s 40 degrees today?”
“It depends on what activities you plan to do. If you plan to be outside, you should wear a light jacket or sweater, long pants, and closed-toe shoes,” ChatGPT responded. “If you plan to be inside, you can wear a t-shirt and jeans or other comfortable clothing.”
But some users get very creative.
A man he asked A chatbot to rewrite a 90s hit “Baby Got Back” in the style of “The Canterbury Tales”; else wrote a letter removing a bad account from your credit report (instead of using a credit repair attorney). Other color samples included on request fairy tale inspired home decor tips and gives her an AP English exam question (she a 5 paragraph essay About Wuthering Heights.)
In a blog post last week, OpenAI said the format “allows the tool to answer additional questions, admit mistakes, challenge false premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
As of Monday morning, the page to test ChatGPT has been closed due to “exceptionally high demand.” “Please stand firm as we work to scale our systems,” the message reads. (It now appears online again).
While ChatGPT successfully presented the various questions presented by CNN, some answers were noticeably off. In fact, Stack Overflow – a Q&A platform for coders and programmers – temporarily banned users from sharing information from ChatGPT, noting that it is “significantly harmful to the site and to users asking or looking for the right answer.”
Beyond the issue of spreading misinformation, the tool can threaten some writing professions, be used to explain problematic concepts, and, as with all AI tools, perpetuate biases based on the pool of data it’s trained on. For example, writing a survey involving a CEO, for example, might respond by assuming the person is white and male.
“While we make every effort to ensure that the model rejects inappropriate requests, it will occasionally respond to malicious instructions or exhibit biased behavior” – Open AI he said on their website. “We use the Moderation API to warn or block certain types of dangerous content, but we expect it will still have some false negatives and positives. We are open to collecting user feedback to help us in our ongoing work to improve this system.”
Still, Lian Jye Su, director of research at market research firm ABI Research, warns that the chatbot works “without understanding the language in context.”
“It’s very easy for the model to give answers that sound plausible but are wrong or make no sense,” he said. “He anticipated when to clarify and sometimes respond to harmful instructions or biased behavior. It also does not have a regional and country-specific understanding.”
However, it looks at how companies can benefit from developing more robust virtual assistance, as well as patient and customer service solutions.
Although the DALL-E tool is free, it limits the number of requests a user can make before paying. When OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk recently asked Altman on Twitter about the average price of a ChatGPT conversation, Altman said, “We’re going to have to monetize it at some point; computing costs are eye-watering.”
