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OP-ED FEBRUARY 17, 2023 | The Indian Eye 12

Here’s a knock of the future

ChatGPT as its name suggests is based on a language model.
It does not produce videos or images as other AI products do, but it has in-depth under-

standing of the spoken and written word

SADHNA SHANKER

s 2022 came to a close, in
November ChatGPT arrived.
AWithin days of its unveiling,
it had garnered more than 1 mil-
lion users, and they are growing.
You might have heard of it, if not,
it is something we all should know
about. It is a knock of the future on
our lives and intellect.
I asked ChatGPT how it would
describe itself - ‘I am an artificial
intelligence trained to assist users
in generating human-like text. I do As per reports, Google issued a ‘code red’ for ChatGPT. The bot could challenge its dominance of the search domain on the internet (File photo)
not have personal experiences or
feelings and I do not have a physical
body…provide information and an- net. This included nearly 570GB search domain on the internet. If a es can be oversimplified, and often
swer questions …based on data that of data obtained from books, web user can simply ask a bot for the an- pretty commonplace.
has been provided to me during my texts, Wikipedia, articles and other swer, instead of having to navigate However, all these problems
training.’ pieces of writing on the internet. A various sites, it would be a death would be overcome, as the technol-
A product of OpenAI, one of the total of 300 billion words were fed knell for search engines. ChatGPT ogy and ability of machine learning
world’s leading AI companies based into the system. It learns along the seems to threaten not just search improves. So where does this march
in San Francisco, it is poised to chal- way, improving its understanding of engines, but also many other profes- of AI into our space lead us? How
lenge many notions of what we per- questions. sions and upend academics. is AI going to change our society?
ceive as pure human domains. Using For the real world it can create ChatGPT, like other such AI These are important questions, that
machine learning technology, it can content, write scripts, books, sto- products does have its limitations. have no easy answer.
simulate dialogue, admit mistakes, ries, poems, research papers, edit When I asked it about the James It is probably the time for us hu-
reject inappropriate requests, and as articles, explain quantum mechan- Webb Telescope, its answers were mans to overcome the limit of com-
the site informs when you register, it ics in simple language and the like. outdated. monplace and ordinary. We need
also remembers conversations! As Commercial uses could be in digital It admitted ‘I apologize for the to think, ideate and brainstorm to
Elon Musk described it, ‘It is scary marketing, customer service, online outdated information….my training come up with the extraordinary and
good.” At the moment it is free, but content creation, code, answering data consists of a snapshot of the in- remarkable in our everyday lives. Let
it is likely to be monetized soon. industry specific questions, and it ternet as it existed up to 2021.’ Since the machines do the routine, average
ChatGPT as its name suggests is could have a dramatic impact on the knowledge of the bot is gleaned work – we should ensure that what
based on a language model. It does edtech. Just type ‘uses of ChatGPT’ from the internet, often the prejudic- we create is superlative in a way only
not produce videos or images as oth- on the net and see how people are es, biases and misinformation that a human mind can conceive.
er AI products do, but it has in-depth already using it. exist on the internet can reflect in
understanding of the spoken and As per reports, Google issued the responses. It can often be wrong Sadhna Shanker is a writer based in
written word. The model was trained a ‘code red’ for ChatGPT. The bot and incorrect, as the site of OpenAI New Delhi, India.
using text databases from the inter- could challenge its dominance of the warns when you register. Its respons- Email: [email protected]

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