Everything You Need to Know About ChatGPT
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Lately, it’s been impossible to avoid the topic of AI, especially ChatGPT.? With the recent fears and implications surrounding ChatGPT in different industries, Selland Technologies took a comprehensive look at this revolutionary technology.?
What is ChatGPT??
ChatGPT is a conversational AI language model developed by OpenAI , designed to generate human-like text based on the input provided to it. It uses deep learning techniques to generate responses to questions and conversations on a wide range of topics.?
How Does ChatGPT Work??
You place a question in the ChatGPT prompt and wait for the AI to answer. The question can be about anything from simple questions like 'how many kilometers are there in a mile?’ to complex philosophical questions such as ‘ what is the meaning of life?’. There is no limit on the number of questions you can ask nor on the responses you can receive. ChatGPT will continue to generate answers as long as it continues to be prompted.
The Future of ChatGPT
When talking about AI in general, and ChatGPT in particular, it’s hard to avoid the elephant in the room - what danger does this pose to certain positions across varying industries? Many people in marketing, programming, and copy-writing careers have been sweating over the success and popularity of this groundbreaking language model. The looming question in many of our minds is- will my career become redundant? While there may be some tasks that employers will opt to outsource to the free platform to generate seemingly endless content, there is still something to say about the human touch that AI cannot provide. When it comes to the programmatic side of ChatGPT, it seemingly delivers very confident answers? but the code that it gives almost always requires fairly extensive editing and integration for it to work with per-existing code or other code blocks. As we are seeing, ChatGPT can answer almost any question in a matter of seconds, but it cannot replicate the humanness that communicates the authenticity we all crave. It does a stellar imitation, but it won't take long for readers to sense the hollowness of the content.?
In the words of Matthew Sag , a law professor at Emory University who studies copyright implications for training and using large language models like ChatGPT, “There's a saying that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually give you Shakespeare. There's a large number of monkeys here, giving you things that are impressive — but there is intrinsically a difference between the way that humans produce language and the way that large language models do it”
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Utilizing ChatGPT
Knowing that AI bots are not going to replace us all, we can begin to enjoy its best purpose - an impressive tool to assist the human race. In regards to programming, it can, however, be very useful for developers to utilize quick and easy boilerplate code or "skeleton code" that they can then fill out with more nuanced code by hand. Another way to make our lives easier and more efficient, we can use ChatGPT to help with brainstorming and research on any topic. For example, if we want to write a blog post about elephants but don’t know where to begin or don’t have hours to research information on elephants, we can turn to ChatGPT to help us out. Asking many questions in different directions - about biological traits, geographical habitat, the influence of humans on their existence, etc., ChatGPT will generate an answer for each question, and the answers usually provide a wide range of information. This technique helps to outline the desired direction for the content. This usage is very similar to the way we would use a search engine - the difference is that ChatGPT helps to get the information faster. It is important to bear in mind that a fact check is always needed; the AI might occasionally be wrong about some facts.
Summary
In conclusion, when researching and interacting with this new AI tool, it felt like a very progressive search engine. As long as you remember to fact-check the information provided, you will get a pretty rich picture of the topic explored. Think of it like having a research assistant that could go through big volumes of data very fast and generate relevant information on the topic. Still emphasizing the fact that human touch cannot be replicated by AI, the future looks bright with learning to incorporate ChatGPT into our lives especially with AI constantly improving on itself as this industry grows. It will only help make our work more efficient and give us more time and access to information that leads to creating even better and well-informed content.?
Author & Contributors
Zach Carroll