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• About ChatGPT
• Concerns

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About ChatGPT:

• It is an artificial intelligence tool developed by OpenAI.
• ChatGPT is based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer Architecture. It is trained on massive amount of text data from the internet. It used 570 GB of text data mined from the internet. It is a type of neural network and was first introduced in 2017 in a paper titled “Attention is all you need”. A neural network can fine tune its output based on the feedback given to it during stages of training. This allows the model to better understand the context and meaning of the input and to generate conversational response.
• ChatGPT is more than a chatbot. You can even ask it to write a program or a software application. It can do creative work like writing a new story or poetry. It can answer scientific concepts and answer any question that needs factual answer.
• It is fine tuned to provide conservational responses, as against essay-type content. It is because the neural network behind it has been additionally trained on conversational transcripts with human feedback.
• In addition to the conversational nature of the tool, the creative generative capability is very appealing. ChatGPT can become a powerful pedagogy tool on any topic to anyone, because we can instruct it to “explain it to me like I am a six-year-old”. It can explain in simple terms anything from philosophy to cooking recipes, including new recipes of its own.
• It is a Language Model (rather than a chatbot) that can produce text that sound like human response in a conversation setting.
• It is also a Neural Network

Some Concerns:

• Teachers are unhappy about it as they feel that it can be used to turn in plagiarized essays which could be hard to detect for invigilators. Recently, New York City’s Education department banned ChatGPT in its public schools.
• Skilled white color jobs like that of computer programmers in the IT sector is at threat.
• India’s IT services based exports may get impacted