What are the powers of ChatGPT?

Ferris Seif, Staff Writer|March 20, 2023

With the rise of chatbots, one has shown a ton of promise. Since the technology is very recent, many people have a lot of questions. Here are some answers that were gathered.

What can ChatGPT do?

 
ChatGPT’s main usage is to answer the prompts you type into it according to the official ChatGPT blog. “ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.” You type in a prompt and the bot will answer
 

Who will ChatGPT help?

 
Right now the bot is in its early stage and itś hard to tell who will actually benefit. Well according to Scott Rosenberg, the managing editor at AXIOS. The most likely source of income from bots like ChatGTP will be entertainment based. He compares ChatGPT and bots like it to the internet. “When the web burst on the scene 30 years ago, the first profits flowed not to web publishers or online stores but to internet service providers.” Rosenberg thinks it’ll follow the same path as the internet. With all the entertainment-based services that will be the most profitable.
 

Where are the AI’s abilities applicable?

 
The bot does have several ways it can apply its abilities. According to the ChatGPT blog, it can help kids with questions. It can help a coder with broken code. It can also help with letters and more. They show many ways you can use the bot and how it can be helpful in everyday life.
 

When will it get even better?

 
Once again the ChatGPT blog says talks about this. “We know that many limitations remain as discussed above and we plan to make regular model updates to improve in such areas”. They plan on updating the bot to make it better and better because, in its current state, it has many flaws.
 

Why are people worried about this AI?

 
The AI has the possibility of answering any prompt given fast and often well-worded. Many fear that AI could end up even replacing workers like writers for a newspaper. According to Stephen Shankland, principal writer for CNET. The bot doesn’t know what’s true and what isn’t. “The answers you get may sound plausible and even authoritative, but they might well be entirely wrong…”
 

How could this AI harm people?

 
With the bots’ fast response times. Its well-worded sentences. Its even factual sounding statements. Many people think this bot might have use for writing essays and cheating school papers. The bot at least at this moment the bot has too many limits for that to be a worry. According to the blog introducing ChatGPT, The bot can tell straight-up lies. It can’t tell apart fact from fiction so right now it isn’t the best opinion for your following essay in English class. The bot has already received heat from adults for students trying to use it on a paper.

Send-off

As of this moment, the bot has a very interesting future. With the chances of full factual essays at the tip of your fingers. We’ll all have to see where it leads. Don’t count on it for your essays though.