ChatGPT may offer advanced functionality, but it remains an artificial intelligence (AI), leaving itself open to mistakes, misunderstandings, and even hallucinations.
This has led to several disputes, with individuals using the tool inappropriately and creating malware and other damaging files with it. Thankfully, however, this problem seems to have lessened significantly over time.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an impressive example of how even small numerical computation elements can achieve complex and extraordinary feats. On an overall scale it provides a tremendous impetus to understand how to systematically create "plausibly meaningful" text - although its capabilities do have their limits.
Start with processing your prompt by breaking it into tokens, and use those tokens with its transformer-based neural network system that replicates real conversations by producing output sequences of text that mirror those conversations.
It involves an enormous number of calculations using 175 billion neural net weights; but, in essence, it resembles ripples in a lake, with each computational element ("neuron") doing its own thing and passing along results to another "neuron" before passing back along multiple layers until tokens have been produced one at a time. It differs significantly from traditional computer algorithms which often loop back on themselves repeatedly in an effort to further refine output.
What does it do?
Responses are generated based on information in its training dataset. This could mean anything from creating poems about sentient farts to populating an essay on cultural effects of Spanish-American War.
As with other chatbots, this one may not always provide 100% accurate responses. For instance, its answers only contain information dated before 2021 so any recent world events may receive limited knowledge and potentially inaccurate or vague responses. Furthermore, it dislikes swearing or political debate and attempts have been made at hacking this program (although hackers have made attempts).
If a response is either good or bad, use the icons on screen to indicate this opinion using thumbs up/thumbs down icons to let ChatGPT know how accurate its responses are over time. Alternatively, share a link of your conversation with friends and colleagues - though they will no longer have access to viewing your sidebar chat history if this option is selected.
How does it do it?
Contrary to more conventional chatbots, ChatGPT utilizes an artificial neural network trained with data sourced from the web for deep learning - this allows it to produce entirely original responses instead of simply repeating canned responses or pre-set answers.
As part of this process, the neural net is given access to "knobs" which allow it to regulate next-word probabilities - enabling it to produce text which sounds natural to human readers.
ChatGPT gives a response, you have two choices for action: either accept it as is or provide feedback that can help the model improve. Clicking the thumbs-up icon gives positive ranking of any response while copying or pasting to use later allows copy and pasting responses for use elsewhere by clicking clipboard icon - these actions help ChatGPT answer more of your questions accurately; additionally you can tell ChatGPT to ignore certain types of inquiries such as politics, swearing and academic essays by selecting from its list of restrictions.
What does it mean?
Although ChatGPT may seem complex at first glance, its core elements are actually rather straightforward. One key element in its architecture is that it relies heavily on neural nets--with one having billions of weights like machine learning models do today--for its operation.
This network was trained on text data derived from different sources - including websites and books - so it could learn to continue text in an acceptable fashion - similar to how search engines operate.
Just like a search engine, ChatGPT uses feedback from human users to refine its output. If a response was helpful for you, click on the thumbs-up icon to help ChatGPT learn from that experience and do better in future interactions; alternatively you may share more details by leaving a comment about that particular response.
