Thursday, December 08, 2022

About ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that just launched last week and is already generating quite a lot of buzz. It's similar in concept the the generative art programs like DALL-E and Midjourney, but it produces text as its output, not pictures.

I've signed up for an account but haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but I am very intrigued, as are many others. 

Here are a couple of long articles about ChatGPT that are worth reading if you intend to use it or are just curious about what it can do.

  • How to Talk to ChatGPT, the Uncanny New AI-Fueled Chatbot That Makes a Lot of Stuff Up. "OpenAI's new platform promises entertainment, industry disruption—and plenty to worry about." 
  • AI Homework. "It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class, asked for help in her role as Thomas Hobbes, witness for the defense. I put the question to ChatGPT, which had just been announced by OpenAI a few hours earlier:"
Of the two articles, "AI Homework" gets deepest into the implications of this technology, and they are considerable.

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