ChatGPT – The Wonder Bot

ChatGPT- The AI ChatBot from OpenAI has cast a spell of surprise, wonder as well as hope by its wide scale abilities in problem solving, answering queries or automating tasks for a large number of people world over.

ChatGPT 4, released in November 2022 is the latest version of the ChatGPT after ChatGPT 3.5, 3 etc. The GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer while Chatbots like it were made primarily to reply to customer queries relating to shopping, businesses or alike. Later the functionalities became broader like answering academic queries, predicting sports results, generating journalistic articles, writing computer programs, solving school homeworks, doing painting, writing poems in seconds et al.The ChatGPT uses the Large Language Model (LLMs) to predict something after a given word or sentence. It is trainable – meaning it can be taught to learn new methods of arranging data, either in text, graphical, pictorial or visual media form. The whole software is still in its developing stages with additions in new features, capabilities and accuracy levels.

ChatGPT being a product of Artificial Intelligence is a great tool for increased productivity and automation. It can save time and labour in many fields like research, media, space, electronics etc. It has created a record in creating the fastest user base i.e. 1 billion users per month. It has also been the fastest in getting investments i.e. since its release on November last it has garnered billions. Microsoft has decided to invest $10bn in it, while owner OpenAI has forecast a revenue of $1 bn this year. Microsoft has integrated ChatGPT with its own search engine Bing.  Google has launched its own AI, Bard to compete with it and will also invest around $300mn in AI research and development.

ChatGPT’s critics have also been vocal about its harmful capabilities and misuse. Terming it as blasphemous in re-generating art or in literature to weapons of total destruction and death. ChatGPT can be potentially misused to create slanderous articles on issues damaging reputations of people, spreading misinformation or fakes speedily or copying in examinations, projects etc. On the other hand, ChatGPT also provides irrational, incorrect or nonsensical results.

The future of ChatGPT or AI is potent with possibilities of tremendous progress and use. Businesses are using it to generate strategies for increasing customer bases or increasing profitability. Scientific research can be greatly helped by such generative apps. Governments also use it for data analysis, creating solutions to problems or creating policies for the benefit of all. ChatGPT, given its wide capabilities can rule the AI world for years to come and technologies that may appear.