Although social media, the internet and digitisation have greatly improved our lives, they have also cast a dark shadow on us. Though social media has united people across the world, it has also become a riskier place to be in. There is so much information out there and through the sale of personal data, search has reduced us to a commodity. Digital facilities have made our most private issues public for use and viewing.
Artificial intelligence is one of the most fundamental and potent tools used in the digital world. Although artificial intelligence (AI) was first proposed in the middle of the 20th century, it has only just begun to come into its own, but it has shown its presence in what we see and do. OpenAI’s shocking release of ChatGPT has opened the public’s eyes to the potential of AI.
The Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, often known as ChatGPT, is a free online technological application that can generate and produce text in answer to simple questions and instructions. If you give ChatGPT a few prompts or directions, it will create the content for you. For example, if you want to write an essay, it will write content for you. Articles, essays, jokes, and even poetry can be written by it.
Unlike Facebook, which took over 4 years for 100 million users, ChatGPT did so in just the first two months after its launch in November 2022.
You may type natural-language prompts with the help of this programme from OpenAI. ChatGPT responds in a conversational if slightly formal, manner. The chatbot remembers the conversation and bases its subsequent responses on past queries and answers. It gets its responses from a huge amount of online data. In regions where there is sufficient training data for it to learn from, the tool appears to be fairly knowledgeable. ChatGPT has new features that range from research assistance to help in doing homework. Although it isn’t yet intelligent enough to replace all people, it is capable of creativity, and its responses occasionally sound genuinely authoritative.
People working in a variety of fields, from marketing to teaching to computer programming, are discovering ways to use ChatGPT to streamline their work and free up time to concentrate on more difficult tasks that need human input and experience. Many technical advancements have been developed to date, including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), which can greatly improve teaching in schools and give professionals more expertise.
AI hence has the potential to be humanity’s most powerful tool ever for making the world a considerably better place to live when used wisely. OpenAI, however, warns it users as ChatGPT may contain many dangers. ChatGPT doesn’t exactly know anything “It’s a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. We have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness,” OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman tweeted.
However, it is important to realise that the Internet is not as secure as many of us think it is, and that because of this flaw, hackers may steal your information anonymously or commit heinous online crimes without your knowledge. While ChatGPT promises to be a useful learning tool for students and teachers alike, it is still a work in progress and mistakes can still be made, so students must use it to develop skills to determine the truth.
ChatGPT has a lot of potential to change content, creativity, art, industries, jobs and even search. But like all technologies, this one has a dark side whose dimensions are still being explored.