Context: Last week, OpenAI, the company best known for Dall-E — the AI-based text-to-image generator — introduced a new chatbot called ChatGPT.

About  ChatGPT 

• ChatGPT is a prototype dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language and generating impressively detailed human-like written text.

• It is the latest evolution of the GPT – or Generative Pre-Trained Transformer – family of text-generating AIs.

•  It is trained using a machine learning technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF),

• It can simulate dialogue, answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests.

How to access

• Currently, it is open in beta to all users.

• One can go to the OpenAI website and sign up to try out ChatGPT by creating an account.

• The chatbot has already crossed one million users, and you might get a message that the beta is full.

Usage 

• A tool like ChatGPT could be used in real-world applications such as digital marketing, online content creation, answering customer service queries or as some users have found, even to help debug code.

• The bot can respond to a large range of questions while imitating human speaking styles.

Limitation

• OpenAI claims ChatGPT will occasionally produce inaccurate information and that its knowledge is restricted to global events that occurred before 2021.

• AI technology can also perpetuate societal biases like those around race, gender, and culture. 

Is ChatGPT capable of writing fiction?

• Yes, but not at the level of a humans, at least not for now. Nor is OpenAI the only company trying to get AI to take over writing. 

• Google had recently showcased how its LaMDA chatbot is being used to help with fiction writing, but it too admitted that this was only a helper right now and cannot take over the entire task. 

• Still, ChatGPT showcases an interesting and exciting use case for AI, where humans can have a ‘real’ conversation with a chatbot.