What is ChatGPT: The new AI chatbot that can code, compose music, write essays, and more
Business Insider | 06 Dec 2022
- ChatGPT is a new chatbot that answers questions in a conversational, human-like way.
- People shared conversations with ChatGPT, showing it writing social media posts and explaining code.
- It reached over one million users in five days — but has its limitations.
A new artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT is answering questions and taking instructions from users in a conversational, human-like way. OpenAI — the company that's also behind AI-art generator Dall-E — launched an early demo of ChatGPT last week and amassed over 1 million users in five days, according to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. ChatGPT is not only conversational, but well-versed in a large range of topics. It can create code, social media posts, and even scripts for television shows.
In its blog post about the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI said its "dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests." The AI language model "is a sibling" to InstructGPT, a model that also responds in detail to a user's instructions, and a newer version of GPT-3.5, AI that predicts what words will come next after a user starts typing text. ChatGPT was trained with "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback," according to OpenAI's website. "We trained an initial model using supervised fine-tuning: human AI trainers provided conversations in which they played both sides—the user and an AI assistant," the website says.
The human trainers would rank and rate the chatbot responses, then feed those ratings back to the chatbot so it could learn what kind of responses were wanted. The company is now depending on user feedback to improve the technology.
Altman responded to Piantadosi on Twitter, telling him to "hit the thumbs down on these and help us improve!". The OpenAI CEO asked Twitter users what features and improvements they want to see with ChatGPT, then responded that the company would work on "a lot of this" before Christmas. "Language interfaces are going to be a big deal," he said on Twitter. "Talk to the computer (voice or text) and get what you want, for increasingly complex definitions of "want"! this is an early demo of what's possible (still a lot of limitations — it's very much a research release)."
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