What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT, receiving the greatest attention these days, is an AI chatbot developed by the American AI startup OpenAI. ChatGPT is a search tool that shows search results requested by users. You may think that it sounds similar to other chatbots. But why is ChatGPT is in the limelight now? One of the biggest differences between ChatGPT and other portal sites such as Google and NAVER is that it learns large language model-based data, answers questions and talks like humans, and provides information about a wide range of topics.
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Learning over 300 cases of data from the Internet, ChatGPT can make daily conversation, write theses, write codes, and conduct a test. It is capable of creating unique products with a variety of content such as text, audio, and images. In addition, it can prepare report and theses and conduct programming like a smart assistant. As of February 2023, you can use ChatGPT for free once you sign up. If you want faster service even during the peak time, you can use ChatGPT Plus with a monthly subscription plan available for USD 20 (KRW 25,000). ChatGPT Plus provides higher quality answers and information than the general version.
Why is ChatGPT So Powerful?
ChatGPT is built upon GPT-3.5, super AI that learns data with 175 billion parameters. GPT-4, planned to be launched by OpenAI in 2023, is expected to become even more precise than GPT-3.5 since it is predicted to use over 1 trillion parameters.
Unlike preexisting chatbots, ChatGPT learns by itself with undergoing trial and error through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Since ChatGPT reflects human feedback, it can continue conversation. Foreign press evaluated ChatGPT as the best chatbot to talk with.
How Big is the Market Power of ChatGPT?
The number of ChatGPT users reached 1 million in four days. Taking into account that it took 3.5 years, 10 months, and 8 months for Netflix, Facebook, and YouTube, respectively, to secure 1 million users, it shows that the market power of ChatGPT is tremendous.
According to a report published by the global financial company UBS, the number of daily users reached 13 million and the number of monthly active users (MAU) is estimated to be over 100 million. Taking into consideration that it took six and nine months for Instagram and TikTok, respectively, to reach 100 million users, ChatGPT is the application that has secured 100 million users in the shortest period.
Microsoft has been making continuous investments in OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, and has recently started the initial test of its new ChatGPT-based Bing Mobile. In addition, Google announced a plan to launch the conversational AI chatbot Bard based on its language model LaMDA. Some predict that Bard will become more powerful than ChatGPT since it can learn a tremendously huge amount of data from Google's daily search results surpassing 3.5 billion views.
What Would be the Limitations of ChatGPT?
Of course, ChatGPT has limitations. ChatGPT does not provide information generated after 2021 since it is based on data generated in 2021 or earlier. Therefore, it may not be able to create accurate responses to questions about information after 2021.
If ChatGPT's training data contains biased information, its responses may be biased as well and ethical issues may arise.
Since numerous people are using ChatGPT around the globe, sometimes unethical answers and political answers are induced. OpenAI has set the AI Code of Ethics which prohibits ChatGPT from answering any political, discriminative, or hateful questions. However it is difficult to block false information completely since numerous users are using ChatGPT all over the world. It is obvious that ChatGPT will change our daily lives, but we need to think about the ethical aspect as well based on its limitations.
