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A beginner-friendly guide to understanding the inner workings of ChatGPT
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Have you ever wondered how ChatGPT knows the answers to your questions? Curious about how an AI chatbot can ace tests and write human-sounding responses? If you're not a machine learning pro, understanding how ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots work might seem daunting. But don't worry—this wikiHow article will break down how ChatGPT works in easy-to-understand terms.
Things You Should Know
- ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can generate and understand natural human language.
- The chatbot responds to prompts based on its training data, context, and knowledge of language patterns.
- ChatGPT's data comes from a massive dataset that includes billions of websites, books, journals, articles, and internet forums.
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- ChatGPT's knowledge is limited to its training data. Because the chatbot's training data cuts off in 2021 (and its internet access is very limited), it isn't helpful for researching current events. [8] X Research sourceThanks
- ChatGPT's exposure to a wide variety of training data means it may "hallucinate" facts. Because of this, it's best to do your own research to verify ChatGPT's answers and text content.Thanks
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References
- ↑ https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/chatgpt-and-large-language-models-whats-the-risk
- ↑ https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html
- ↑ https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-what-is-chatgpt
- ↑ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
- ↑ https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/domains
- ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07243
- ↑ https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/model-card.md
- ↑ https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-what-is-chatgpt
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