Why in News?
- Recently, OpenAI (AI research and deployment company) opened its most recent and powerful AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to users to test its capability.
About ChatGPT-
- ChatGPT is a variant of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) which is a large-scale neural network-based language model developed and launched by OpenAI.
- GPT models are trained on large amounts of text data to generate human-like text.
- It can generate responses to a broad range of topics, for example answering questions, providing explanations, and engaging in conversations.
- In addition to being able to “admit its mistakes, challenge false premises, and reject unsuitable requests,” the ChatGPT can also “answer follow-up questions.”
- The chatbot was also trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
- Limitations-
- The chatbot exhibited explicit racial and sexist biases, which remains a problem with almost all AI models.
- The chatbot provides answers which are grammatically correct and read well– though some have pointed out that these lack context and substance, which is generally true.
- ChatGPT occasionally produces inaccurate information/data and that its knowledge is limited to global events that occurred before 2021.
Importance of ChatGPT-
- Chatbots and conversational AI- ChatGPT can be fine-tuned to understand and respond to natural language input, making it convenient for building chatbots and other conversational AI applications.
- Language generation- ChatGPT can be used to generate coherent, fluent, and natural-sounding text, making it a powerful tool for tasks like language translation, summarization, and text completion.
- Arts creation- It can be used to create poetry, and other forms of text, making it a useful tool for industries like media, publishing, and advertising.
- Language model fine-tuning- It can be fine-tuned to specific tasks for instance sentiment analysis, question answering, and named-entity recognition.
- Business use-cases- It can be used to produce product descriptions, customer service responses, and other forms of business-related text, potentially enhancing efficiency and reducing the need for human-generated content.
- Research- It can be used as a tool for researchers studying natural language processing, machine learning, and AI.
Various Ethical Concerns Associated with It-
- Malicious and Dangerous Coding- Some users have been experimenting with the chatbot’s potential to perform malicious actions. It has been claimed by many users that malicious and dangerous coding is generated by the Chatbot despite their claims to be amateurs.
- Generation of Phishing Email- ChatGPT is set up to refuse requests to write phishing emails or malicious code but in actual sense ChatGPT is producing an outstanding phishing email.
- Creation of Biased Data/information- One issue is the potential for bias in the generated code, as the training data used to create the code generator may include biases that are reflected in the generated code.
- Curtailing the Job Opportunity- There is a key concern that the use of code generators could lead to the loss of jobs for human programmers.
- Plagiarism Chokepoint- Plagiarism in academics is not a new issue, but ChatGPT has altered how AI is utilized to create original writing. It is difficult to identify plagiarized information/data as a result. Teachers and academicians have also manifested concerns over ChatGPT’s impact on written assignments.