Written by Brandon Deck
Chat GPT is a form of AI that generates information to the user that the user asked the AI. It uses natural language processing to create human-like conversations. The name of Chat GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”. This refers to how Chat GPT responds and processes requests and formulates responses from the question the person asks it.
Open AI, which is the company responsible for releasing Chat GPT, released the first version of Chat GPT on november 30th of 2022. When Chat GPT was released it gained a lot of popularity, with over one million users within 5 days of the release. As a company, Open AI was founded in 2015. The founders of the company are, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. Although Elon musk is no longer involved with the company. They all used their skills as individuals to create what is now the smartest AI on the planet. After the release of Chat GPT, Open AI is now worth over 11 billion American dollars.
Chat GPT has advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of Chat GPT is that its extremely easy to use and that it's free for everyone to use. Since its release, only individuals used it, now big time companies use it for information on certain topics. This shows that Chat GPT can be used in the future for companies, showing that Chat GPT can be infused with schools and major corporations. Some disadvantages of Chat GPT is that it doesn't have a virtual assistant to read out messages that are typed or relayed back to the user. Another disadvantage is that Chat GPT has released the 4th version of the AI, which is an improved version of Chat GPT 3, and is locked by a microtransaction.
There are many controversies about Chat GPT. Some of those controversies are Ethical implementations of Chat GPT, reproduction of harmful content online, privacy concerns, Biased answers or data, concerns of being anti-conservative and woke, Used by some courts in the world to help with the trial, and the biggest one of all, a worry of a hindrance to learning.
It's scary how Chat Gpt’s AI demonstrates the future of AI. Chat GPT can take over millions of jobs for the future, answering questions that even humans can't answer. It can also change the way that millions of students also learn in the future, like how it can take over a teacher's job. These are some of the possibilities that can happen. This shows that AI is ever so evolving, and quickly, and how we may need to adjust lifestyle to AI.
Chat GPT is a very smart AI, but like anything, it has limitations. Chat GPT sometimes does not always have the right information to a question, because it can turn out to be a nonsensical answer. It can also have non emotional responses, meaning that it sometimes doesn't respond to emotional questions imputed from the user. It also doesn't offer real world experiences, in which sometimes the user may be looking for.
Chat GPT can easily be misused. Chat GPT has many answers to many questions, but many questions can be unethically used. Such as using it to cheat on tests, essays, and homework. It can be misused to write malicious code to threaten other people. There has been email phishing, creating fake websites to steal identity, and steal bank information.
Chat GPT currently has 100 million users. Chat GPT is currently banned in Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Italy.