OpenAI’s latest tool / toy is an AI chatbot. | Image: OpenAI
OpenAI has released a prototype general purpose chatbot that demonstrates a fascinating array of new capabilities, but also shows off weaknesses familiar to the fast-moving field of text-generation AI. And you can test out the model for yourself right here.
ChatGPT is adapted from OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model but trained to provide more conversational answers. While GPT-3 in its original form simply predicts what text follows any given string of words, ChatGPT tries to engage with users’ queries in a more human-like fashion. As you can see in the examples below, the results are often strikingly fluid, and ChatGPT is capable of engaging with a huge range of topics, demonstrating big improvements to chatbots seen even a few years ago.
But the…