You might have heard talk of Chat GPT around the Internet. Some say it’s groundbreaking technology, even comparing it to Google. But how does Chat GPT work, what actually is it, and what makes it different from the dozens of other AI that we currently have access to? If you have these questions on your mind, not to worry. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about this technology and how it works.

The model was trained using text databases from the internet. This included a whopping 570GB of data obtained from books, webtexts, Wikipedia, articles and other pieces of writing on the internet. To be even more exact, 300 billion words were fed into the system.

What Is Chat GPT?

Chat GPT is a chatbot that was developed by the artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. It has a number of different functions, including answering questions, solving math equations, writing texts, debugging and fixing code, translating between languages, creating text summaries, making recommendations, classifying things, and explaining what something does, such as a code block. In other words, it has a vast array of functions that have the potential to simplify everyday life for a lot of people.

How does it work?

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On the face of it, GPT-3's technology is simple. It takes your requests, questions or prompts and quickly answers them. As you would imagine, the technology to do this is a lot more complicated than it sounds.

The model was trained using text databases from the internet. This included a whopping 570GB of data obtained from books, webtexts, Wikipedia, articles and other pieces of writing on the internet. To be even more exact, 300 billion words were fed into the system.

As a language model, it works on probability, able to guess what the next word should be in a sentence. To get to a stage where it could do this, the model went through a supervised testing stage.

Here, it was fed inputs, for example “What colour is the wood of a tree?”. The team has a correct output in mind, but that doesn’t mean it will get it right. If it gets it wrong, the team inputs the correct answer back into the system, teaching it correct answers and helping it build its knowledge.

It then goes through a second similar stage, offering multiple answers with a member of the team ranking them from best to worst, training the model on comparisons.

What sets this technology apart is that it continues to learn while guessing what the next word should be, constantly improving its understanding of prompts and questions to become the ultimate know-it-all.

Think of it as a very beefed-up, much smarter version of the autocomplete software you often see in email or writing software. You start typing a sentence and your email system offers you a suggestion of what you are going to say.

Here’s more on ChatGpt:

1. Communication in conversational format:

GPT-3 was previously issued, which caused a number of issues to arise within the organizations. Some questions could not be answered by AI, and it was unable to make up facts. Therefore, the end user occasionally has to alter the prompt, which is the text provided to the AI, but they are still trying to cue the AI.

But theoretically, it would be better if the AI could cue instead of you. Therefore, AI should just ask you if it is not understanding in a conversational manner rather than rephrasing the query to help it comprehend what you are looking for and respond appropriately.Therefore, the direction is now toward this product with Chat GPT.

2. Respond more dynamically – employs Reinforcement learning method

The conversational approach will let the new GPT option respond to more dynamic interactions and will make it more likely to respond than ask. As opposed to Chat GPT, which has been specifically trained for this purpose, GPT-3 was previously used by the end user to initiate interaction. It employs a method known as reinforcement learning from human learning.

3. Technique used:

In particular games like chess, go, poker, and the Atari games, the results of using these tactics have been particularly amazing. Even if the game has set rules and prizes, a conversation does not, therefore human feedback is crucial in this situation.

This was accomplished by asking a model a question, sampling a number of the answers, and then allowing a human to manually rank the answers. Following that, these ranks served as training data for the reward model. The output of the reward model will then be improved by further training a fine-tuned language model using reinforcement learning to react to queries.

In specialized games like chess, go, poker, and Atari games, the results of using these strategies have been particularly amazing. Although there are predetermined rules and rewards for the game, there are no such regulations in a conversation, therefore human feedback is crucial in this situation. This was accomplished by asking a model a question, selecting a few of its responses from the pool, and then having a human hand rank the results.

These ranks then served as training data for the reward model. In order to maximize the output of the reward model, a refined language model will then be further trained using reinforcement learning to respond to inquiries.

4. Sibling Model to InstructGPT:

As a result of the dialogue style, ChatGPT is able to respond to follow-up inquiries, acknowledge its errors, refute false assumptions, and refuse unsuitable proposals. A sibling model to InstructGPT, ChatGPT is taught to follow instructions in prompts and respond in-depth.

5. Responds to everything:

Chatbot that has been trained to engage in conversation. The dialogue model, according to OpenAI, enables ChatGPT to  respond to all types of writing, including theoretical essays, mathematical solutions, and stories. It can also answer follow-up questions and the company says that it can also admit when it makes a mistake.

A quantum physicist, science author, and researcher in computer programming, Michael Aaron Nielsen, tweeted –

“ OpenAI’s new chatbot is amazing.  It hallucinates some very interesting things. For instance, it told me about a (v interesting sounding!) book, which I then asked it about:

Unfortunately, neither Amazon nor G Scholar nor G Books thinks the book is real. Perhaps it should be!”

6. Alter the way how people make use of search engines:

By offering customers with more than simply links to browse through, it could fundamentally alter how people use search engines by delivering answers to complex problems and problems. It is not just a good debugging companion but it can also fix the bug when you are asking a question.

7. Free To use and built on GPT-3.5 language technology:

On November 30, the public was given access to the AI-powered chatbot on OpenAI’s website. While it is still in the research review stage, users can sign up and test it out for free.

The GPT-3.5 language technology, created by OpenAI, is used by ChatGPT. This sophisticated artificial intelligence model has been trained using a substantial chunk of text data from various resources.

8. Elon Musk Puts a halt to its practice:

As soon as Elon Musk learned that OpenAI was using Twitter’s database to train ChatGPT, he immediately put a halt to that practice because OpenAI is no longer open-sourced and non-profit, and it should eventually pay for this knowledge.

9. Human Replacement:

Most significantly, ChatGPT has demonstrated the ability to build complex Python code and compose college-level essays in response to a prompt, raising concerns that such technology may probably replace human workers like journalists or programmers.

Jason DeBolt, an Amazon employee tweeted “ Ok this is scary. @OpenAI’s ChatGPT can generate hundreds of lines of Python code to do multipart uploads of 100 GB files to an AWS S3 bucket from the phrase “Write Python code to upload a file to an AWS S3 bucket”.

Is There A Chat GPT App?

While its text-based conversational format would make ChatGPT into a great app to have on your smartphone, it’s not available on IOS or Android – at least not yet.

However, you can still use ChatGPT for yourself if you want to give it a try. Simply go to the OpenAI website, select the banner called ‘Introducing ChatGPT’ and then choose ‘Try.’ The website will then prompt you to create an account, and once you’ve done this you can log in and select the ‘Playground’ option to chat with ChatGPT.

Try GPT 
https://chat.openai.com/chat