ChatGPT: Everything You Need To Know So Far
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) model which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. The model uses natural language to create humanlike conversational dialogue such as various written content, including articles, social media posts, essays, programming code and emails.
What is ChatGPT?
Generative AI has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the world of technology for months now. ChatGPT is also a form of Generative AI (AGI) -- a chatbot powered by large amounts of data and computing techniques to make predictions to string words together in a meaningful way. You can fine ChatGPT familiar because of automated chat services found on customer service websites, as you can ask it questions or request clarification and get answered with humanlike texts. "Generative Pre-trained Transformer", that's what the acronym GPT stands for, it refers to a type of large language model (LLM) use in natural language processing tasks.
Who created ChatGPT?
ChatGPT was created and launched by OpenAI -- an artificial intelligence research company in November 2022. It was founded by a group of entrepreneurs and researchers including Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2015. OpenAI is backed by Microsoft the most notable and by several other investors as Thrive Capital, Micro VC and many others. OpenAI has also created Dall-E and AI text-to-image generator and trained GPT-4 the most recent and powerfull OpenAI model.
How does ChatGPT work?
ChatGPT as other GPTs, works through the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which uses specialized algorithms to find patterns within data sequences but it could be seen as the following example very simplified: It sees some words, and then uses an algorithm to review it's HUGE dataset of written words, and then use that to guess which word it should put next to all the previous words. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response, originally used the GPT-3 large language model.
The most recent model used by ChatGPT is GPT-3.5. There is also GPT-4 which comes in two mode, GPT-4 vision which lets you process images, audios and videos and GPT-4 which offers a faster response time and more accurate and longer replies. Both of the GPT-4 comes with ChatGPT Plus a premium tier version of ChatGPT. You can also try GPT-4 with Draco, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant which is coming soon and is powered by the latest GPT models.
ChatGPT is trained on a massive dataset which is a large amount of text data brought from the internet and other sources. The training process of ChatGPT involves two main steps: pre-training and fine-tuning.
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Pre-training: The model is trained on large volume of publicly available text datas by scraping it from the internet or using already fine-tuned datasets. The training data consists of parts of sentences or complete sentences, and the model's objective is to predict the next word in a given context. This task is known as unsupervised learning because the model doesn't have access to specific labels or targets. To predict the next word, GPT uses a transformer architecture. Transformers employ a network of self-attention layers that can capture relationships between different words in a sentence. The model learns to generate coherent and contextually appropriate responses by recognizing patterns and dependencies in the training data.
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Fine-tuning: After pre-training, the model is fine-tuned on a more specific dataset with human-generated conversations. This dataset includes both inputs (user messages) and desired model outputs (appropriate responses). Human reviewers provide ratings and feedback on model-generated suggestions to create a reward model. This feedback is used to fine-tune the model using a method called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). During fine-tuning, the model learns to generate responses based on the given input and the provided context. It can generate creative and contextually relevant replies by leveraging the knowledge and patterns it learned during pre-training.
What kind of tasks can users ask ChatGPT?
ChatGPT can solve variety of tasks and questions, including simple or more complex tasks, such as "What is the fermat’s little theorem" or "help me write a short note to introduce myself to my neighbor". STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) are the disciplines which ChatGPT is proficient in, while it can debug or write code also. Is fundamental to note that ChatGPT GPT-3.5, GPT-4 has a limited knowledge up to the year 2021, so it can not perform accurately on tasks which requires the knowledge of most recent datas.
What are the use cases of ChatGPT?
ChatGPT can be used for different use cases more than having human conversations. People can use ChatGPT to resolve the following tasks:
- Summarize pieces of texts, articles or presentations,
- Generate code in different programming languages and check for bugs in code,
- Draft presentations,
- Generate captions for images
- Solve math problems,
- Create titles for articles,
- Assist with programming activities,
- Translate in different languages,
- Create resumes and cover letters,
- Ask trivia questions,
- Make jokes,
- Discover keywords for search engine optimization.
What are the benefits of ChatGPT?
While users and businesses are still exploring the use cases and benefits of ChatGPT as the models continues to evolve it's significant to note some of the benefits below written:
- Automation. ChatGPT comes with the possibility to be used with API, generating endless opportunities to automate repetitive tasks.
- Multilingual support. ChatGPT can translate and communicate in multiple languages, simplyfying the interaction with global audiences.
- Improves Accessibility for Education. While on search engine you can have difficulties finding informations on specific topics ChatGPT can bring those informations to users.
- Cost savings. ChatGPT can help reducing costs for businesses for example for a software house company ChatGPT can solve programming tasks making engineers more focused on coding rather than solving coding issues.
- Scalability. ChatGPT can handle many users simultaneously, which is beneficial for applications with high user engagement.
- Better response time. ChatGPT provides instant responses, which reduces wait times for users seeking assistance.
What are the limitations of ChatGPT?
Where there are benefits there are also limitations for ChatGPT including the following:
- Sensitive. ChatGPT is sensitive to tweaks to the input phrasing or attempting the same prompt multiple times. For example, given one phrasing of a question, the model can claim to not know the answer, but given a slight rephrase, can answer correctly.
- Accuracy. Ideally, ChatGPT would ask clarifying questions when the user provided an ambiguous query. Instead, current ChatGPT models GPT-3, GPT-4 usually guess what the user intended.
- Moderation While ChatGPT refuse inappropriate requests, it will sometimes respond to harmful instructions or exhibit biased behavior.
- Source. ChatGPT does not provide analysis or insight into any data or statistics. ChatGPT might provide statistics but no real commentary on what these statistics mean or how they relate to the topic.
How to use ChatGPT?
To use ChatGPT, you need to create an OpenAI account. First, visit chat.openai.com and click on the button "Sign Up", then enter an email address or create an account using your Google or Microsoft account.
After signing up, type a task or question in the message box on the homepage. There are different tasks that can perform then:
- Enter a different task or ask for clarification of the previous prompt.
- Share the response.
- Regenerate the response.
You can also use ChatGPT on Draco our AI powered assistant which is coming soon. Meanwhile you can join the waitlist and get notified for when it will be available.
How to use ChatGPT for free?
ChatGPT is available for free through OpenAI's website. Users need to register for a free OpenAI account. There is also an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus for access to GPT-4, faster responses, no blackout windows and unlimited availability. ChatGPT Plus also gives priority access to new features for a subscription rate of $20 per month.
Without a subscription, there are limitations. The most notable limitation of the free version is access to ChatGPT when the program is at capacity. The Plus membership gives unlimited access to avoid capacity blackouts.
What are the alternatives to ChatGPT?
During peak hours ChatGPT is often unavailable due to capacity issues. There are valid alternatives such as Google Bard which is able to draw information directly from the internet through a Google search to provide the latest information.
Also Microsoft added ChatGPT functionality to Bing, giving the internet search engine a chat mode for users. The ChatGPT functionality in Bing isn't as limited because its training is up to date and doesn't end with 2021 data and events. The functionality is called Copilot.
There are also other text-generator alternatives powered with OpenAI latest artificial intelligence (AI) models such GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and GPT-4 vision, including the following:
- Draco (Coming Soon)
- Article Forge
- ChatSonic
- DeepL Write
- Google Bard
- YouChat
- Perplexity
ChatGPT latest updates
In December 2023 Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI has confirmed that the team has started working on GPT-5 and it is still in the training phase.