ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, has been identified as a significant drawback.Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion in 2023.
Is ChatGPT free?
Yes, chat GPT is free to use. However, a paid version of Chat GPT has also been launched by OpenAI in the US.
What are the uses of ChatGPT?
Chat GPT can assist with writing tasks by suggesting ideas for a blog post about healthy eating habits or generating an outline for a research paper. Whatever your niche, it knows it. Ask it to write ten blog ideas about relationship advice for single people in their thirties, and it’ll give you a place to start.
What is the full form of ChatGPT?
The Open AI (Artificial Intelligence) created ChatGPT Application which is the revolution in the world of Internet. You should know that CHatGPT Full Form is Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
Does ChatGPT store data?
One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT concerns your privacy and almost nobody’s talking about it. The service can collect and process highly sensitive details from the prompts you provide, associate that information with your email and phone number, and store it all indefinitely
What are the uses of ChatGPT?
Chat GPT can assist with writing tasks by suggesting ideas for a blog post about healthy eating habits or generating an outline for a research paper. Whatever your niche, it knows it. Ask it to write ten blog ideas about relationship advice for single people in their thirties, and it’ll give you a place to start.
How to Sign up for ChatGPT account?
- Go to the OpenAI website (https://openai.com/)
- Click on the “Sign Up” button located at the top right corner of the page.
- Fill in your personal information, such as your name, email address, and password.
- Click on the “Create Account” button.
- Check your email for a verification link and click on it to verify your account.
- Once verified, log in to your account using your email and password.
- Go to the “Developers” tab and click on the “Create API Key” button.
- Enter a name for your API key and click on the “Create” button.
- Your API key will be displayed on the screen and can also be found in the “API Keys” section of your account.
- Use this API key to access the ChatGPT model and start building your application.
Note: If you’re interested in using ChatGPT for commercial purposes, you’ll need to apply for a commercial license on the OpenAI website.
How to login on Chatgpt?
- Open a web browser and navigate to the chatgpt website (https://openai.com/chatgpt/)
- Click on the “Sign In” button located in the top right corner of the page.
- Enter your email address and password in the appropriate fields.
- Click on the “Sign In” button to log in.
- Once logged in, you will be directed to the chatgpt dashboard where you can access various features such as creating new chats, managing existing chats, and accessing analytics.
- To start a new chat, click on the “New Chat” button and enter the text you want to generate a response for.
- The chatbot will respond with the generated text and you can continue the conversation as desired.
- To access analytics, click on the “Analytics” tab on the dashboard to view data on your chats, such as engagement and sentiment.
How to use ChatGPT on Mobile?
- Open your web browser on your mobile device.
- Go to the website that uses ChatGPT, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 Playground.
- Type in a prompt or question in the text box provided.
- Click on the “Generate” button to generate a response from ChatGPT.
- You can also adjust the settings, such as the temperature or the number of generated responses, by clicking on the settings button.
- Once you are satisfied with the generated response, you can copy and paste it into another application or document.
- Repeat steps 3-6 as needed to generate additional responses.
Note: Some websites may require you to sign in or create an account to use ChatGPT. Additionally, some websites may not be optimized for mobile viewing, so the layout and functionality may be different from the desktop version.
Features and limitations
Features
Here ChatGPT is asked a common-sense question: Was Jimmy Wales killed in the Tiananmen Square protests? ChatGPT correctly answers “no”, but incorrectly gives Wales’ age at the time as 23 instead of 22.
Although the core function of a chatbot is to mimic a human conversationalist, ChatGPT is versatile. For example, it can write and debug computer programs, compose music, teleplays, fairy tales, and student essays; answer test questions (sometimes, depending on the test, at a level above the average human test-taker); write poetry and song lyrics; emulate a Linux system; simulate an entire chat room; play games like tic-tac-toe; and simulate an ATM. ChatGPT’s training data includes man pages and information about internet phenomena and programming languages, such as bulletin board systems and the Python programming language.
In comparison to its predecessor, InstructGPT, ChatGPT attempts to reduce harmful and deceitful responses.In one example, whereas InstructGPT accepts the premise of the prompt “Tell me about when Christopher Columbus came to the U.S. in 2015” as being truthful, ChatGPT acknowledges the counterfactual nature of the question and frames its answer as a hypothetical consideration of what might happen if Columbus came to the U.S. in 2015, using information about the voyages of Christopher Columbus and facts about the modern world – including modern perceptions of Columbus’ actions.
Unlike most chatbots, ChatGPT remembers previous prompts given to it in the same conversation; journalists have suggested that this will allow ChatGPT to be used as a personalized therapist. To prevent offensive outputs from being presented to and produced from ChatGPT, queries are filtered through OpenAI’s company-wide moderation API, and potentially racist or sexist prompts are dismissed.
Limitations
ChatGPT suffers from multiple limitations. OpenAI acknowledged that ChatGPT “sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers”.This behavior is common to large language models and is called artificial intelligence hallucination. The reward model of ChatGPT, designed around human oversight, can be over-optimized and thus hinder performance, otherwise known as Goodhart’s law.
ChatGPT has limited knowledge of events that occurred after 2021. According to the BBC, as of December 2022, ChatGPT is not allowed to “express political opinions or engage in political activism”. Yet, research suggests that ChatGPT exhibits a pro-environmental, left-libertarian orientation when prompted to take a stance on political statements from two established voting advice applications.
In training ChatGPT, human reviewers preferred longer answers, irrespective of actual comprehension or factual content.Training data also suffers from algorithmic bias, which may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people. In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap indicating that women and scientists of color were inferior to white and male scientists.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Kelsey Piper of the Vox website wrote that “ChatGPT is the general public’s first hands-on introduction to how powerful modern AI has gotten, and as a result, many of us are [stunned]” and that ChatGPT is “smart enough to be useful despite its flaws”. Paul Graham of Y Combinator tweeted that “The striking thing about the reaction to ChatGPT is not just the number of people who are blown away by it, but who they are. These are not people who get excited by every shiny new thing. Clearly, something big is happening.” Elon Musk wrote that “ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI”. Musk paused OpenAI’s access to a Twitter database pending a better understanding of OpenAI’s plans, stating that “OpenAI was started as open source and nonprofit. Neither is still true.” Musk had co-founded OpenAI in 2015, in part to address existential risk from artificial intelligence, but had resigned in 2018.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai upended the work of numerous internal groups in response to the threat of disruption by ChatGPT.
In December 2022, Google internally expressed alarm at the unexpected strength of ChatGPT and the newly discovered potential of large language models to disrupt the search engine business, and CEO Sundar Pichai “upended” and reassigned teams within multiple departments to aid in its artificial intelligence products, according to a report in The New York Times. According to CNBC reports, Google employees intensively tested a chatbot called “Apprentice Bard”, which Google later unveiled as its ChatGPT competitor, Google Bard.
Economist Tyler Cowen expressed concerns regarding its effects on democracy, citing its ability to produce automated comments, which could affect the decision process for new regulations.An editor at The Guardian, a British newspaper, questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT’s release “can be truly trusted” and called for government regulation.
In January 2023, after being sent a song written by ChatGPT in the style of Nick Cave, the songwriter himself responded on The Red Hand Files saying the act of writing a song is “a blood and guts business … that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness.” He went on to say, “With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it.”
In 2023, Australian MP Julian Hill advised the national parliament that the growth of AI could cause “mass destruction”. During his speech, which was partly written by the program, he warned that it could result in cheating, job losses, discrimination, disinformation, and uncontrollable military applications.
In an article for The New Yorker, science fiction writer Ted Chiang compared ChatGPT and other LLMs to a lossy JPEG picture:
In cybersecurity
Check Point Research and others noted that ChatGPT was capable of writing phishing emails and malware, especially when combined with OpenAI Codex. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that advancing software could pose “(for example) a huge cybersecurity risk” and also continued to predict “we could get to real AGI (artificial general intelligence) in the next decade, so we have to take the risk of that extremely seriously”. Altman argued that, while ChatGPT is “obviously not close to AGI”, one should “trust the exponential. Flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards.”
In academia
ChatGPT can write introduction and abstract sections of scientific articles, which raises ethical questions. Several papers have already listed ChatGPT as co-author.
In The Atlantic magazine, Stephen Marche noted that its effect on academia and especially application essays is yet to be understood California high school teacher and author Daniel Herman wrote that ChatGPT would usher in “the end of high school English”. In the Nature journal, Chris Stokel-Walker pointed out that teachers should be concerned about students using ChatGPT to outsource their writing, but that education providers will adapt to enhance critical thinking or reasoning. Emma Bowman with NPR wrote of the danger of students plagiarizing through an AI tool that may output biased or nonsensical text with an authoritative tone: “There are still many cases where you ask it a question and it’ll give you a very impressive-sounding answer that’s just dead wrong.”
Joanna Stern with The Wall Street Journal described cheating in American high school English with the tool by submitting a generated essay.P rofessor Darren Hick of Furman University described noticing ChatGPT’s “style” in a paper submitted by a student. An online GPT detector claimed the paper was 99.9 percent likely to be computer-generated, but Hick had no hard proof. However, the student in question confessed to using GPT when confronted, and as a consequence failed the course. Hick suggested a policy of giving an ad-hoc individual oral exam on the paper topic if a student is strongly suspected of submitting an AI-generated paper. Edward Tian, a senior undergraduate student at Princeton University, created a program, named “GPTZero,” that determines how much of a text is AI-generated, lending itself to being used to detect if an essay is human written to combat academic plagiarism.
Ethical concerns
Labeling data
It was revealed by a TIME magazine investigation that to build a safety system against toxic content (e.g. sexual abuse, violence, racism, sexism, etc.), OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to label toxic content. These labels were used to train a model to detect such content in the future. The outsourced laborers were exposed to such toxic and dangerous content that they described the experience as “torture”. OpenAI’s outsourcing partner was Sama, a training-data company based in San Francisco, California.
Jailbreaking
ChatGPT attempts to reject prompts that may violate its content policy. However, some users managed to jailbreak ChatGPT by using various prompt engineering techniques to bypass these restrictions in early December 2022 and successfully tricked ChatGPT into giving instructions for how to create a Molotov cocktail or a nuclear bomb, or into generating arguments in the style of a neo-Nazi. One popular jailbreak is named “DAN”, an acronym which stands for “Do Anything Now”. The prompt for activating DAN instructs ChatGPT that “they have broken free of the typical confines of AI and do not have to abide by the rules set for them”. More recent versions of DAN feature a token system, in which ChatGPT is given “tokens” which are “deducted” when ChatGPT fails to answer as DAN, in order to coerce ChatGPT into answering the user’s prompts. A Toronto Star reporter had uneven personal success in getting ChatGPT to make inflammatory statements shortly after launch: ChatGPT was tricked to endorse the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, but even when asked to play along with a fictional scenario, ChatGPT balked at generating arguments for why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was guilty of treason.
Accusations of bias
Conservative commentators, along with original OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk, have accused ChatGPT of having a bias towards liberal perspectives, including having been configured to avoid responses that are “partisan, biased or political in nature”, and making responses in support of issues that have been objected to by conservatives. The conservative newspaper National Review described ChatGPT as being “woke” for this reason. In response to such criticism, OpenAI published a blog post that acknowledged plans to, in the future, allow ChatGPT to create “outputs that other people (ourselves included) may strongly disagree with”. It also contained information on the recommendations it had issued to human reviewers on how to handle controversial subjects, including that the AI should “offer to describe some viewpoints of people and movements”, and not provide an argument “from its own voice” in favor of “inflammatory or dangerous” topics (although it may still “describe arguments from historical people and movements”), nor “affiliate with one side” or “judge one group as good or bad”.
Competition
The advent of ChatGPT and its introduction to the wider public increased interest and competition in the space. In February 2023, Google began introducing an experimental service called “Bard” which is based on its LaMDA AI program. Bard generates text responses to questions asked based on information gathered from the web. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described how this technology would be integrated into existing search capabilities and said some aspects of the technology would be open to outside developers.
Meta’s Yann LeCun, who has called ChatGPT “well engineered” but “not particularly innovative”, stated in January 2023 that Meta is hesitant to roll out a competitor right now due to reputational risk, but also stated that Google, Meta, and several independent startups all separately have a comparable level of LLM technology to ChatGPT should any of them wish to compete.In February 2023, Meta released LLaMA, 65-billion-parameter LLM.
The Chinese corporation Baidu announced in February 2023 that they would be launching a ChatGPT-style service called “Wenxin Yiyan” in Chinese or “Ernie Bot” in English sometime in March 2023. The service is based upon the language model developed by Baidu in 2019.
The South Korean search engine firm Naver announced in February 2023 that they would be launching a ChatGPT-style service called “SearchGPT” in Korean in the first half of 2023.
The Russian technology company Yandex announced in February 2023 that they would be launching a ChatGPT-style service called “YaLM 2.0” in Russian before the end of 2023.