Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT is getting popular, winning 100 million users since it came out in November 2022. People can use the robot to write stories and emails, answer questions and so on. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a lot of Internet text to help users get human-like text.”
Compared with Siri or other chatbots (聊天机器人), ChatGPT uses a much bigger database (数据库) for training. It uses stronger software (软件) and hardware (硬件) to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct. “It’s a totally different product,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University said. “Its knowledge level is similar to a university student. That’s why it surprises the world.”
But the big problems with ChatGPT are that it makes mistakes and even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an article, “it gave out wrong information,” he said. Since the robot is trained using words from the Internet, it can also pick up on the Internet’s biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.
【小题1】When did ChatGPT come out?【小题2】What can people use the robot to do?
【小题3】How does ChatGPT learn things by itself?
【小题4】Why does ChatGPT surprise the world?
【小题5】Does ChatGPT make mistakes and give false information?
