In the past few months, you've seen stories, images, and more about an artificial intelligence program that generates text for you based on what you put in a text box, à la chatbot. This is ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence that promises to help a lot of people get the texts they need for day to day.
ChatGPT is a tool that, through Artificial Intelligence, allows you to create texts quickly, following some guidelines. There is a lot of expectation, doubts, desire and ideas of what uses ChatGPT could give of itself. Here, we are going to give all the information possible so that you do not have doubts about what it is, and its limitations and legal implications.
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What exactly is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a chatbot based on GPT-3.5 AI-based system, currently. It is owned by OpenAI, which is the one who manages the system, and who is feeding the AI with content to work on and with which to achieve the results that are requested.
How do I use ChatGPT?
You need to access its section on the OpenAI website . There you will have to register, and you can start using it once the registration process is complete, for which you will need an active email account.
You may not be able to use it at first, or you may not be able to at any time. It is normal that, due to the popularity that the
How does ChatGPT work?
As happens with many artificial intelligence programs exposed to the public, what it does is learn based on a series of parameters, data, patterns and more elements that are progressively fed. Here we have simplified how it works a lot, as we want this to be understandable.
From the user's perspective, in the text input box, you can enter instructions for what you want it to do. The more detailed and clearly written your instructions, the better the results will be. However, it's important to remember that we're giving it a free-form command, and while the artificial intelligence will interpret it, it won't have the lateral thinking and interpretive capabilities of a human. But it will search much faster and have access to far more words, contexts, and documents than a single human.
What is ChatGPT good for?
Like everything, it depends on how you intend to use it. One common use is for writing short, repetitive texts , such as email replies, cover letters, and other documents where creativity isn't as important as efficiency and consistency.
For example, below is an example of use: drafting responses to professional emails in languages we don't speak fluently. ChatGPT's AI was told, " Draft an email in informal English, saying that I'm interested in joining the project, but I have questions about royalties and how payments will be handled in the future. I also need the company's tax information for my accountant ." The result was as follows:
Hello [Name],
I'm really interested in being a part of the project and I think I could bring a lot to the table. However, I do have some questions about the royalties and how future payments will be handled. I also need to get the tax information to my accountant.
Is there someone I can talk to about this? I'd really appreciate it if we could clear up any doubts before moving forward.
Thanks,
[YourName]
Do I have to pay to use ChatGPT?
For now, ChatGPT is free to use. However, it will likely eventually offer some paid features, geared towards professionals who need this type of AI for writing long, continuous texts, in order to offset the development and operating costs of the AI.
Can I use ChatGPT for class work?
Like when students ended up using Wikipedia en masse to be able to do high school or higher education work by having concentrated information, ChatGPT has emerged as a way to quickly have a large amount of academic format text if you ask it to. .and
To prevent its use in public institutions, some universities and institutes in New York have begun to prohibit its access unless it is a computer classroom where artificial intelligence is studied. But that doesn't stop students from doing class work using ChatGPT, which in theory should give unique results given its status as an AI tool that tries to give unique answers, which is an improvement over using Wikipedia.
However, using ChatGPT for schoolwork isn't entirely recommended, as it's prone to errors . This could include providing incorrect or outdated information, or using disjointed and nonsensical phrases because it's not reviewed by a human. It can help you generate quick texts, but you'll still have to proofread them all.
Can I write a book using ChatGPT?
You can't write a book using ChatGPT because being an artificial intelligence, it won't be able to produce a fully coherent story, and you won't be able to copyright the result, because at least in the US, it's been ruled that to exercise copyright , there needs to be a human component that AIs can't replicate. Yes, you can use ChatGPT to help you write passages from a book.
Keep in mind that ChatGPT, like any other AI, will give you quick results based on certain parameters, but it can't organize or structure them coherently. Therefore, you can use ChatGPT if you're creatively stuck to generate ideas, but they won't be entirely original , and you'll have to edit the results to make them truly useful.
There are cases of people trying to write a comic or children's book using ChatGPT entirely for the story. Its use drew criticism from writers, artists, and publishers. Those who read it took from those books narrative errors, character development and even the transmission of ideas or messages, things that are the most interesting to comic book readers, or to parents who want children's books to have positive messages. Some of these books were self-published, or withdrawn from sale in physical and digital stores for not being able to claim copyright.
Is ChatGPT a browser?
No, ChatGPT is not a search engine . Because you can enter text in any format and it generates a result trying to answer your question, people think it's searching for results and information. But what it actually does is search its database for content that best matches the user's query. This doesn't make ChatGPT a search engine , since it doesn't search through indexed internet results, which is how Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and all other search engines work. This AI searches through the data it has been fed, quickly and with relative accuracy.
ChatGPT cannot access the internet in real time, so it cannot function as a search engine. You might think it works like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, or Google Assistant, but those are voice assistants that connect to Google's search engines. If you ask it for recent news, it will tell you it doesn't have access to it, and if you ask it for text on a constantly evolving topic, it will give you outdated and very likely inaccurate information.
Is ChatGPT reliable?
It's relatively reliable, but it can still make mistakes . As mentioned above, ChatGPT isn't a search engine, and therefore isn't constantly updated with the content published daily, which is what people search for on a search engine. It's easy for it to have picked up incorrect information, or for it to misinterpret the correct information as a human with reading comprehension would. This is why any information it provides should be reviewed if you plan to use it for work or send it to someone.
Can ChatGPT make mistakes?
Yes, ChatGPT makes mistakes. Generally, by interpreting certain instructions or not knowing how to interpret the information that you search for us in your database. This is why it is always important to review the information it offers us, since it can have basic errors and be inconsistent with itself.
That's where the human factor comes in. As has been the case since the early days of computing, it's often said that " computers are very dumb, they only think in zeros and ones, but they are very fast ." This is an example of that, as it's rapidly processing a lot of data but sees it simply as text and some connections between them; it can't see absolutely everything unless it has been very carefully fed and trained.
