Everything you need to know about ChatGPT

• Open AI, the AI ​​company behind the AI ​​art generator DALL E, has released the viral bot ChatGPT.
• The bot, which attracted more than 1 million users shortly after its launch, is attracting more investors in generative AI.
• If you haven’t followed the GPT craze, here’s how it works and what experiments are using it to replace humans.

Since OpenAI released its blockbuster bot ChatGPT in November, users have casually experimented with the tool, with even insider reporters attempting to mock news or report potential data.

For older millennials who grew up using IRC chat rooms — a text instant messaging system — the personal tone of conversations with the bot can evoke the online chat experience. But ChatGPT, the latest technology known as “Large Language Model Tools,” doesn’t speak with sentiment and doesn’t “think” the way humans do.

This means that while ChatGPT can explain quantum physics or write a poem on command, full AI takeover is not imminent, according to experts.

“There’s a saying that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually give you Shakespeare,” said Matthew Sag, a law professor at Emory University who studies the impact of copyright law on training and using large language models like ChatGPT.

“There’s a large number of monkeys here that are delivering amazing things — but there’s a key difference between the way humans produce language and the way large language models do it,” he said.

Chat bots like GPT are powered by big data and computing techniques to make predictions to string words together in a meaningful way. Not only do they tap into a large amount of vocabulary and information, they also understand words in context. This helps them mimic speech patterns while conveying an encyclopedic knowledge.

Other tech companies like Google and Meta have developed their own large scale language model tools using programs that take human prompts and develop sophisticated responses. OpenAI, in a revolutionary move, has also created a user interface that allows the general public to experiment with it directly.

Some recent efforts to use chatbots for real-world services have proven troubling — with strange results. Mental health company Koko came under fire this month after its founder wrote about how the company used GPT-3 in an experiment to respond to users.

Koko co-founder Rob Morris rushed to clarify on Twitter that users weren’t speaking directly to a chat bot, but that AI was being used to “compose” responses.

The founder of the controversial DoNotPay service, who claims his GPT-3-powered chat bot helps users resolve customer service disputes, also said an AI “lawyer” would advise defendants in actual traffic cases in the courtroom in real time, though he later retracted this over concerns about his risks.

Other researchers seem to be taking more measured approaches with generative AI tools. Daniel Linna Jr., a Northwestern University professor who works with the nonprofit Advocacy Committee for Better Housing, explores the effectiveness of technology in law. He told Insiders he’s helping experiment with a chatbot called Rentervention designed to assist renters.

This bot currently uses technologies like Google Dialogueflow, another great language model tool. Linna said he’s experimenting with Chat GPT to help Rentervention come up with better answers and craft more detailed letters while assessing its limits.

“I think there’s so much hype surrounding ChatGPT, and tools like this have potential,” Linna said. “But it can’t do everything – it’s not magic.”

OpenAI has confirmed this, stating on its own website that “ChatGPT sometimes writes answers that sound plausible but are incorrect or nonsensical”.

Read Insider’s coverage of ChatGPT and some of the strange new ways companies are using chatbots:

The tech world’s reception on ChatGPT:

Microsoft is taking it easy on employees using ChatGPT – just don’t share “sensitive data” with it.

Microsoft’s investment in the developer of ChatGPT may be the smartest $1 billion investment ever made

ChatGPT and Generative AI looks like the next tech boom. You could be the next bubble.

The ChatGPT and Generative AI “Gold Rush” has founders flocking to San Francisco’s “Cerebral Valley.”

Insider Experiments:

I asked ChatGPT to do my job and write an inside article for me. It quickly became a shockingly persuasive article full of misinformation.

I asked ChatGPT to respond to my Hinge matches. Nobody answered.

Developments in ChatGPT detection:

Teachers rejoice! The developers of ChatGPT have released a tool that helps detect AI-generated writing

A Princeton student has developed an app that can detect if ChatGPT has written an essay to combat AI-based plagiarism

ChatGPT in society:

BuzzFeed writers are reacting with a mixture of disappointment and excitement to the news that AI-generated content is coming to the site

ChatGPT is testing a paid version – Here’s what this means for free users

A leading UK private school is changing its approach to homework amid the rise of ChatGPT as educators around the world adapt to AI

Princeton computer science professor says don’t panic about ‘bullshit generator’ ChatGPT

The CEO of DoNotPay says the threat of “6 months in prison” means plans to debut an AI “robot lawyer” in the courtroom are on hold

It might be possible to fight a speeding ticket with an AI “robot lawyer” secretly feeding you wires to your AirPods, but it might get out of hand

An online mental health company uses ChatGPT to respond to users in experiments, raising ethical concerns about healthcare and AI technology

ChatGPT is coming for classrooms, hospitals, marketing departments and everything else as the next big startup boom arises