ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it
A new chatbot has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it says. ChatGPT was publicly released on Wednesday by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. ChatGPT is the latest in a series of Als which the firm refers to as GPTS, an acronym which (1) for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
To develop the system, an early version was fine-tuned through conversations with human trainers. The system also learned from access to Twitter data according to a tweet from Elon Musk, (2) is no longer part of OpenAl's board. The Twitter boss wrote that he had paused access "for now". The results have impressed (3) people who have tried out the chatbot. OpenAl chief executive Sam Altman revealed the level of interest in the artificial conversationalist in a tweet. The project says the chat format allows the Al to answer "follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests".
A journalist for technology news site Mashable who tried out ChatGPT reported it is hard to provoke the model into saying offensive things. (4) , OpenAl warns that "ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible- sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers". Training the model to be more cautious, says the firm, causes I to decline to answer questions that it can answer correctly. Briefly questioned by the BBC for this article, ChatGPT revealed itself to be a cautious interviewee (5) of expressing itself clearly and accurately in English.
(Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/technology)