What is ChatGPT?
If you've been browsing the internet lately, you might have heard about ChatGPT. It's a chatbot powered by natural language processing advancements and has been designed to provide answers to your queries. You can ask it a question, and it will give you an answer, though the authenticity of the information in the answer that it gives you is sometimes questionable.
How can you use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is based on Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT), which is fine-tuned with both supervised learning and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). To put it more simply, ChatGPT was developed by OpenAI to help you with a variety of tasks. You can ask it questions, have it make meal plans, and even program with it. It provides you with a great place to start when you're looking to pick up a new hobby or plan something out.
For example, you can ask for a week-long dinner meal plan, and it will give you a pretty decent list. You can even ask it to make a shopping list for you, and it will do so as well.
How to use ChatGPT effectively?
However, ChatGPT's value comes from knowing how to use it effectively. If you rely on everything that it says to be fully accurate, it's not going to be as powerful as knowing its limitations. Even OpenAI has said that GPT-3.5 sometimes suffers from "hallucinations," meaning that it just... makes stuff up sometimes. It's a powerful tool and can be great at pointing you in the right direction, but like any good tool, it needs to be used effectively.
ChatGPT Plus subscription
ChatGPT Plus is the subscription tier of ChatGPT, and it comes with GPT-4 access and a promise of faster response times when the service is at capacity. It costs $20 per month. GPT-4 has a number of improvements over GPT-3.5, such as being able to use visual prompts to generate text. It's also more creative, tries to be more accurate, and prevents misinformation. It's still obviously not perfect, but it's improved in that it can score higher on standardized testing as a result.
How to access ChatGPT?
You can access ChatGPT for free by visiting the website. You'll need to make an account to access it, but once you do, you'll instantly be able to use it with the same limitations as any other user. You can speak to it as much as you'd like, and there are no limits to using it.
The Future of ChatGPT and AI
ChatGPT is still very much in its infancy, and we're excited to see where it goes and what the technology will be capable of in the future. Artificial Intelligence has come such a long way in the last couple of years, with a major boom in capability unfolding in only the last two years. We have no clue if this is only the beginning, and if it is, then it's going to get very exciting very quickly.
