Is 2023 shaping up to become the year of A.I.? – Optuma

The world was introduced to ChatGPT, the next generation of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) platforms, in November of 2022. This natural language model using A.I. machine learning algorithms revolutionised the way people interacted with their computers. Within two months of its initial release, ChatGPT became the fastest-growing site in history. It quickly hit over 100 million daily users, faster than any other platform before it. In the same way Google redefined the search engine platform (to the point Googling entered the zeitgeist), ChatGPT is doing the same for A.I. based user-interactions.

What is ChatGPT and why should I care?

Good question, I’ll ask ChatGPT to describe what it is and how it works:

Hello! I’m ChatGPT, a language model created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Put simply, I’m a computer program that can understand and generate human-like language.

To create me, my creators fed me with a massive amount of text from various sources such as books, articles, and websites. I used this data to learn patterns in language and gain an understanding of the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are used to convey meaning.

So now, when you ask me a question or give me a prompt, I use the knowledge I’ve gained from that data to generate a response that’s hopefully helpful and makes sense. I can handle a wide range of topics and can converse with you on various subjects.

In a nutshell, I’m a computer program that can understand and generate human-like language, and I work by using the vast amount of data that I’ve been trained on to generate responses to your questions and prompts.

Based on my own use of the system over the last few months I can tell you it’s being modest here. The scope of the things ChatGPT can do is astounding. It can review text and provide suggested improvements. It can learn your writing style and provide additional content. It can code in popular languages such as python or java. It will find and give several sources on a topic or write entire assessments. It’s not unreasonable to say this technology will see many areas (workplaces, schools, universities, etc.) having to adapt quickly to ensure it’s used effectively and ethically.