WILL CHATGPT END THE WORLD?
INTRODUCTION
ChatGPT seems to be everyone's favourite natural language input AI chatbot that has been on everyone's lips since it it was officially launched on 30th November by the OpenAI team. And, not gonna lie, it has somewhat lived up to the hype. From answering simple and straight forward questions like, "How to make Caesar salad" to solving complex coding problems, ChatGPT seems to have all of it covered. But how was it even made? How long did it take the OpenAI team? Since its so smart, can it take our jobs? Will ChatGPT eventually snap and take over the world and make us humans slaves? Come to think of it, being slaves to a machine would actually suck. Imagine doing tasks that the machines can do a lot faster and more efficiently but the machine would just make us do it anyway to see us suffer 🤔🤔. Let's dive into the phenomenon that is becoming ChatGPT!
WHAT EXACTLY IS CHATGPT ALL ABOUT?
I hear someone in the back screaming, "What the hell is a natural language input AI chatbot anyway?!". Well, its a chatbot that understands natural language input (duh! 😒). What makes ChatGPT seem to be the final level of a machine learning game is its ability to understand and process "normal" English (it doesn't have to be English but you get the point) and give back a human-like response. Which is also a little bit creepy if you ask me.
Back to the serious stuff, in more technical terms, ChatGPT is a variant of the popular language model GPT-3, specifically designed for chatbot applications. It was developed by OpenAI, a leading research organization in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of the key features of ChatGPT is its ability to generate human-like responses to text input. This is achieved through the use of a large neural network trained on a vast amount of data, including text from conversations, books, and articles. As a result, ChatGPT is able to generate responses that are coherent, informative, and natural sounding. It can also understand and process a variety of languages and still give human-like output in those languages.
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WHY USE CHATGPT?
Well, why not 😁 ? For one, it saves you a lot, I mean a lot of time. For example, you have an essay due in a few hours ... (you can see where I'm going with this). Obviously, ChatGPT won't do all the work but, it would do enough to get you started and leave just a little bit of the work left for you.
Since it understands normal language input you can theoretically just talk to the AI. It can help with YouTube video ideas, tweet/instagram caption ideas and one I experienced first hand, help solve coding problems. Obviously, I can't say it has taken the place stackoverflow or the official docs have in my heart but its becoming ever present and very useful.
Something that I think is also really cool is that ChatGPT is free to use (big ups to OpenAI) and, I even dread to say the word, opensource. Yes, ChatGPT is also open source. So literally anyone, including a twisted 23 year old black hat hacker from Eastern Europe, can have access to its inner workings and use it in whatever system/program they deem fit. But everything doesn't have to be always bad, it can also be used positively to bring about more advancement in the AI/ Machine learning world. Which brings me to the question, can chatGPT take our jobs?
WILL CHATGPT TAKE OUR JOBS?
In one word, YES. Not just ChatGPT but AI in general will take a lot of jobs. But then that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. When social media came it took away jobs from the post offices and other letter delivering services but it also provided millions of jobs to programmers, designers, cloud engineers etc. So, yeah, AI isn't at that point yet. It can't recreate that empathy, creativity or sensitivity present in humans, yet. Maybe in five or ten years but slowly it will take jobs and create many many others
CONCLUSION
As tempting and as inviting as it is to just copy code from chatGPT and mindlessly paste into your project, sometimes it may not be correct. It may look correct but on closer inspection you will notice errors in logic or code. A lot of people seem to have been copying and pasting questions from stackoverflow to ChatGPT and copying and pasting it's answers back to stackoverflow to gain rank (or just for people to think they're smart) but most of the answers they give end up being wrong answers which look right on first glance. Eventually, stackoverflow has temporarily banned users from posting answers gotten from ChatGPT on their site.
Aside the fact that ChatGPT will take our jobs (bummer 😓), I also noticed something a strange about chatGPT. It says that it generates responses in real time and does not get stored responses from its backend but some straight questions like "WIll you take over the world" or "Will you take our jobs" have answers that seem very hard coded. Like the AI devs want us to see those "As a language learning model I can't take your job yada yada" as opposed to what ChatGPT actually wants to say. And you see it give the same answer over and over again. Why would it give the same answer with the same diction if that particular answer wasn't hard coded so we won't see its real intentions 👀 .
If you are still here waiting to hear whether ChatGPT will end the world or not, dey play. Just dey play.
PS: Somewhere in this article I added actual text gotten from ChatGPT. Can you find it? First 3 to find it, follow the blog and send it to my mail gets a gift (It just might be 5k but you didn't hear it from me 😅😅)
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