Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT, the powerful new AI chatbot from OpenAI that generates text. Here are the basics you need to know.
If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT, the uncanny new chatbot from artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, here is a quick primer on everything you need to know about the controversial new program.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that allows a user to generate original text. You can ask it questions, give it creative prompts, and use it to generate a whole bunch of different stuff—from poems, to songs, to essays, to short stories.
When Did ChatGPT Come Out, and Where Does It Come From?
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI and launched in November of last year. Partially founded by Elon Musk, OpenAI is an organization that is dedicated to the research and development of artificial intelligence. OpenAI has a number of other controversial investors, such as rightwing billionaire Peter Thiel, who offered a substantial amount of financial assistance to the org when it was first setting up shop. OpenAI is run by CEO Sam Altman, who is also a founder of the organization.
How Do You Use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is really easy to use. To get set up, you’ll need to create an OpenAI account. This is easy to do and only requires that you fork over an email address and a phone number. After that, you’ll be able to use ChatGPT and the company’s other tools like DALL E 2, an AI art tool that creates illustrations based on text prompts.
Like a normal chatbot, ChatGPT includes a text field where you can type in questions or commands. Give the chatbot a prompt and it will respond.
For instance, you can ask: “ChatGPT, why is the sky blue?” or “How do I build a birdhouse” or command it to “Write me a Raymond Chandler story about the McDonald’s Hamburglar.” This chatbot is pretty much down for anything, so feel free to get creative.
ChatGPT is powered by a sophisticated algorithm called a large language model. Such algorithms are fed with massive amounts of textual data, which then allow them to respond to prompts in a realistic, human-like fashion, a computational system known as natural language processing.
Who Is ChatGPT for?
Pretty much anybody can use ChatGPT! As long as you set up an account with OpenAI, you should be good to go.
No, ChatGPT does not currently have a mobile app, though it seems only natural that one will pop up in the not too distant future.
No. In fact, the platform is known for making a lot of things up, and its answers can often be wrong. If you’re planning on relying on ChatGPT to write an essay or an article, you’re going to want to fact check everything it says.
The current answer to this question is: it depends on just how much chatting you want to do with ChatGPT.
For the first few months it was available, ChatGPT didn’t cost any money to use, but OpenAI always made it clear that it intended to monetize the chatbot. On Feb. 1st, it was announced that a premium service had been launched.
