What is ChatGPT and why does it have the whole world in a flutter

AI-powered ChatGPT is rivalling even Fifa World Cup 2022 for social media eyeballs. The smart chatbot is keeping people glued by answe-ring questions, writing code and poems, all with human-like sensi-tivity. Even Elon Musk and Chris Anderson are impressed. Here’s why: 

What is ChatGPT and what does it do?  

The third iteration of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3) impressed many with its potential to write poems, articles, books, tweets, and even code like humans. It is trained to predict the next word on a large dataset of text, but GPT-3 can also generate untruthful and toxic comments, spread misinformation, spam, and write fraudulent academic essays. OpenAI is attempting to address these limitations to make it “more truthful and less toxic” with human supervision. OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company founded by Elon Musk (who resigned from the board but remained a co-chair) and others. 

How did the internet receive ChatGPT?  

Twitter is abuzz with adjectives like “amazing”, “mind-blowing”, and “astonishing” for ChatGPT, with some even describing it a faster Google search. Computer scientist Paul Graham tweeted: “My feed is half ChatGPT screenshots. It’s the new Wordle.” Chris Anderson, curator of TED, called ChatGPT “…the biggest tech innovation of the year...”. Elon Musk tweeted: “ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously-strong AI”, to which Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) responded: “I agree on being close to dangerously strong AI in the sense of an AI that poses e.g. a huge cybersecurity risk...” 

How does one access ChatGPT’s functionalities?  

You can test this model at chat.openai.com for free. If you use ChatGPT’s dialogue box to ask:“Is AI becoming sentient?”, the response is: “No, AI is not becoming sentient. AI is a set of algorithms and programs designed to imitate human behavior and intelligence, but it does not possess the same level of consciousness or self-awareness as a human being.”

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