Everything you need to know about ChatGPT

ChatGPT isin essencea simple online artificial intelligence chatbot created by OpenAI in December 2022. You can ask it a questionand it will answer that question.

For instanceif you ask ChatGPT what it isthis is what it will tell you:

"ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAIwhich is capable of generating human-like text based on the input it is given. The model is trained on a large corpus of text data and can generate responses to questionssummarize long textswrite stories and much more. It is often used in conversational AI applications to simulate a human-like conversation with users."

You can use ChatGPT to message people on dating apps; to write essays; to create malware (yikes); and more. ChatGPT is ethically complicatedcould spread misinformation despite its attempts to stay safeand is giving people advice for their mental health (not its job). Nick Cave doesn't like itand Twitter can't stop talking about it. So what is ChatGPT? Here's everything you need to know about the hottest AI on the scene.

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Is ChatGPT the first chatbot ever?

Chatbots have been around for decadesand you might know them best from interacting with any customer service agent over text; oftenthat's a chatbot. The term chatbot is actually a brutal reimagining of the much more fun "ChatterBot," coined by Michael Mauldin in 1994. But chatbots have come a long way from Maultin's creation of Verbot to OpenAI's ChatGPT. 

Do all chatbots use artificial intelligence?

All chatbots do not use AI like ChatGPT does. Some chatbots simply use keywords to create a response that may or may not be helpful. For instanceif you tell a non-AI chatbot that you didn't receive a package that was marked as deliveredit might encourage you to check the front door (annoying). Other chatbotslike the ChatGPTuse some pretty sophisticated AI. I have had a 30-minute conversation with it about my cat.

Is ChatGPT alive?

Joe Rogen (who admitted to never having tried ChatGPT) likened ChatGPT to that of Ex Machinaa 2014 SciFi thriller in which an AI robot named Ava who turns evil. ChatGPT is not Ava.

But it is intelligent. ChatGPT hasn't been put through a thorough evaluation with the Turing testa test of a machine's ability to behave like a human. But some researchers believe it has passed the testnonetheless. If you asked ChatGPT if it is aliveit says: "NoI am not alive. I am an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAII do not have consciousness or feelings. I am just a computer program designed to respond to text inputs and generate outputs based on patterns in the data I was trained on."

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How do I use ChatGPT?

Ahyesthe most simple answer of all. All you have to do is open chat.openai.com in your browser. You'll be asked to make an account and thenboomyou're plugged in. The tool is completely free to usebut there are rumors that we might get a more powerful paid version in the future. If you want to get better at using the toolthere are classes for thattoo.