What is ChatGPT? OpenAI’s Chatbot Covered in a Nutshell

Shake your hands with ChatGPT, a revolutionary chatbot that provides human-like responses. 😀

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT received more than a million registration in less than a week. 🚀

It has created a buzz around the internet and is grabbing news headlines. People are going crazy over its use cases — from writing essays to school-going kids to solving complex coding problems. It is so well at generating code snippets that people are also debating over whether ChatGPT will replace programmers or not!

Seemingly, it is the future of information retrieval.

Let’s explore what ChatGPT is and what it has to offer!

Table of Contents

• What is ChatGPT?
• Who Built ChatGPT?
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT: What’s the Big Deal?
• ChatGPT’s Large Langauge Model & Training
• ChatGPT Vs. Search Engines
• Applications of ChatGPT
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Keyword Research
  • Content Writing
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Some Real-Life Examples of ChatGPT
• Getting Started with ChatGPT
• Over to You

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an AI-based chatbot that answers queries in a conversational manner, just like a real person. 🔮

Users can interact with ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) in a conversational manner.

It is developed to follow instructions in prompts and generate responses.

ChatGPT is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model, extensively trained to understand user queries and generate satisfactory responses using supervised training and reinforcement learning.

Its remarkable conversational and problem-solving abilities allow it to answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes and reject inappropriate requests.

Currently, OpenAI has introduced the research release of ChatGPT, which is open to use and collects user feedback for constant improvement.

Who Built ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is owned by OpenAI, a San Fransisco-based artificial intelligence company.

The company mainly works in AI research & development aimed at developing safe AGI that benefits humanity.

Other popular outcomes of their research include DALL·E·2, which generates images based on prompts.

Sam Altman is the current CEO of OpenAI, who founded the company in 2015 with other co-founders. Interestingly, Elon Musk was also one of the co-founders of OpenAI, who left the company in 2018. Microsoft also has a big investment of $1 billion in OpenAI and is reported to bring ChatGPT to its search engine Bing soon.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT: What’s the Big Deal?

ChatGPT is surprisingly capable of understanding human queries, processing them, and generating appropriate responses. The self-learning capabilities of ChatGPT help it perform tasks based on available knowledge without any specific training.

This means users can also instruct the model to perform a specific task in a specific manner, just like a human assistant.

It can memorize earlier queries, challenge incorrect premises, reject inappropriate queries, and admit its mistakes.

ChatGPT’s Large Langauge Model & Training

ChatGPT is a large langauge model (LLM).

The large language models use an extensive database to predict the next word in a sentence or a series of words. The larger the dataset, the more accurate the prediction will be.

ChatGPT or GPT-3.5 is the trained version of Open AI’s GPT-3.0 model containing 175 billion parameters. It is the largest neural network built to date. ChatGPT is better and more accurate at understanding the human language and predicting the next word than the old GPT-3.0. It was trained on 570 GB of textual data from the internet, such as Wikipedia, books, and forum discussions, to understand the human pattern of conversations and interactions.

The model completed its training in early 2022. It was trained using supervised fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for more optimization toward dialogues. It was initially trained by human AI trainers that provided dialogues for both parties — the user and AI.

After the supervised fine-tuning, the improved dialogue dataset was mixed with the earlier dataset of InstructGPT.

Next, a reward model for reinforcement learning was created where human rates for further tuning rated the quality of responses by the model. This process was repeated to train the model to better understand the user intent and produce more appropriate responses.

Currently, the research preview of ChatGPT also collects user feedback and uses it for further improvement.

ChatGPT Vs. Search Engines

People over the internet are debating whether ChatGPT will replace search engines such as Google.

ChatGPT lists its capability and limitation on its official website as the following:

Well, that’s quite honest..!

Search engines such as Google are meant to find information over the internet from multiple resources. ChatGPT is a chatbot assistant and can be used to retrieve information from its own knowledge base, which is limited. Now, let’s compare ChatGPT & Google from multiple aspects.

• Finding Instant Answers: Using ChatGPT, you can find instant answers to your queries. On the other hand, while using a search engine, you may need to visit a site or two if the answer is not present on the SERP. ChatGPT is a clear winner here.
• Get the Latest Information: As mentioned above, ChatGPT has limited knowledge of events up to 2021 and, therefore, is not useful for getting the latest news and information related to events after 2021. In this case, Google prevails over ChatGPT.
• Accuracy & Reliability: ChatGPT often produces inaccurate results, and unlike Google, it does not provide any information about the sources, which puts a question mark on its reliability. This makes Google preferable over ChatGPT.
• Problem-Solving Capabilities: ChatGPT is insanely capable of solving problems using its knowledge base, whereas Google depends on other sites.

ChatGPT and search engines both are masters of their ships. Search engines like Google are perfect for internet research and retrieving information from multiple sources. On the other hand, ChatGPT is ideal for finding instant answers to queries and solutions for problems. Read more at ChatGPT vs Google.

Both of them complement each other in some aspects and can be integrated with one another for a boosted experience. Interestingly, ChatGPT’s investor Microsoft is reported to be planning to combine OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Bing search engine, and it is expected to be launched by March.

Applications of ChatGPT

It is quite challenging to narrow down the things that ChatGPT can do! The possibilities are limitless, and so are their applications. Also have a look at ChatGPT Code Interpreter application of ChatGPT.

Search Engine Optimization

ChatGPT can be an excellent assistant in performing day-to-day SEO tasks. It is excellent at understanding the prompts and providing solutions through NLP. Search engine optimization specialists use this tool to increase productivity and efficiency. Learn more at: ChatGPT for SEO

Keyword Research

The AI-based conversation tool can also be an excellent keyword research companion. The tool, trained through natural language processing, can generate a list of keywords on any topic, help you in keyword mapping, identifying the search intent, and more. Learn more at ChatGPT for Keyword Research.

Content Writing

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has just revolutionized the content production industry. It can generate articles, write emails, amazing social media captions, YouTube scripts, Google Ads Copies, and almost anything a human writer can do. The fun part is — the tool can also create poetry and original jokes! Learn more at ChatGPT for Content Writing/Copywriting.

Social Media Marketing

Social media marketers can also leverage ChatGPT at their convenience. Not only does it generates excellent social media captions, it can also help you craft a solid social media marketing strategy for your brand as well as other clients. Learn more at ChatGPT for Social Media Marketing.

Other Real-Life Examples of ChatGPT

1. Write a sick leave mail to your boss.

2. Get a stunning Instagram caption for your vacation pic.

3. Find good reads.

4. Build a simple caclulator in HTML.

Getting Started with ChatGPT

Excited to use ChatGPT? Currently, this out-of-the-world technology is totally free to use.

OpenAI has released the research preview version of ChatGPT.

All you need to start using ChatGPT is an OpenAI account.

Just follow these steps to create a free account on ChatGPT:

• Step 1: Go to chat.openai.com.
• Step 2: Click on Sign up button to create a new account.
  
• Step 3: Enter your email address, set your password, and click on continue.
  
• Step 4: Verify your account using the verification mail to get started.

You may also need to enter your mobile number and verify it.

Once your account is created and verified, you can log into your account through chat.openai.com and start using ChatGPT.

Over to You

In a nutshell, ChatGPT is an excellent AI-based tool that can understand and generate natural languages. It has a wide range of explored and yet-to-be-explored applications that can make our lives easier. And, if you are a Magento store owner, learn here how to use ChatGPT for Magento.

That was everything you need to know about ChatGPT! 🙌

I hope this blog post will help you better understand ChatGPT. 🔮

How are you planning to use ChatGPT? Let me know in the comments! 💬