Everyone’s having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works

Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:35:59 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/everyones-having-a-field-day-with-chatgpt-but-nobody-knows-how-it-actually-works-196378>

"ChatGPT is the latest and most impressive artificially intelligent chatbot
yet. It was released two weeks ago, and in just five days hit a million users.
It’s being used so much that its servers have reached capacity several times.

OpenAI, the company that developed it, is already being discussed as a
potential Google slayer. Why look up something on a search engine when ChatGPT
can write a whole paragraph explaining the answer? (There’s even a Chrome
extension that lets you do both, side by side.)

But what if we never know the secret sauce behind ChatGPT’s capabilities?

The chatbot takes advantage of a number of technical advances published in open
scientific literature in the past couple of decades. But any innovations unique
to it are secret. OpenAI could well be trying to build a technical and business
moat to keep others out."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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