Hey Everyone,
It’s been a really interesting week for the Zeitgeist of A.I. adoption. Even as we await announcements on GPT-4 and more Microsoft funding for OpenAI. Now we have Davinci-003 and ChatGPT.
Alex Kantrowitz recently covered this trend here. Twitter also seems enthusiastic about it.
Okay maybe not that enthusiastic:
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s newest language model based on the GPT-3.5 series of LLMs, optimised for dialogue.
During the research preview, usage of ChatGPT is free. Try it now at chat.openai.com.
Michelle Huang
‘It felt like I was reaching into the past and giving her a giant hug, and I felt it ripple back into the present’
I’m not sure how genuine the story but it is intriguing.
While we’ve been waiting years for “chatbots” and Conversational A.I., we may be getting a bit closer with GPT-3 tweaks.
Davinci-003 and ChatGPT do show GPT-3 continues to be tweaked in meaningful ways even years after its release as a foundational model.
Someone on LessWrong write about their first impressions of ChatGPT.
Combined with details about Google’s project Pitchfork this week (Insider), it’s a lot to digest.
Even OpenAI seems to be impressed with the demand for demos of its chat bot spin-off.
ChatGPT you see is trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback; human AI trainers provide supervised fine-tuning by playing both sides of the conversation. However it can still get into some moral dilemmas of course.
It’s been 10 years now since HER, the movie about the human-AI interaction that changed how a lot of us hope A.I. might become in terms of dialogue. It’s stunning to see the decline Amazon Alexa, Siri, Cortana among others during this period.
ChatGPT is a new spin on what a “chatbot” can do. People try to push them to the limits for a good story too:
People training a chatbot on their old diaries to have a conversation with their younger self is not something I would have considered amusing. I think what it shows is we crave an A.I. that’s not just good at dialogue, but relatable like a counselor or personal assistant.
