What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is one of the latest AI tools that is causing a lot of buzz and even controversy in the business world and beyond. It isn't the first, and it won't be the last. In ChatGPT's own words, "I am designed to engage in natural language conversations with humans on a wide range of topics. I use deep learning algorithms to analyze and understand the meaning behind the words that users input and generate relevant responses based on my training data."
Simply put, it's like Google on steroids, but without an internet connection. It lets you ask questions, seek assistance with problems, and get help with both everyday and complex tasks in ways that continue to surprise even people who work with it everyday.
Yes, ChatGPT can answer questions for you, but it can also help you come up with ideas, write text and blog posts in various tones of voice, generate tables, clean up code, write songs and poems, create custom diet or exercise plans, and help you craft responses to emails. What's more, not only does the model remember the inputs you have provided as you go along in each thread, but it also explains its answers to you, and can easily adjust its output to you based on new prompts that you provide.
Many people are very excited to learn how to train this model, and the myriad applications this model has for everything from marketing to novel writing to nuclear physics. But, for many others, the rapid expansion of AI technology provokes anxiety: fear of humans being replaced by robots in the workplace, fear of people losing their ability to write, to think critically. Since humans designed ChatGPT - like all artificial intelligence - it not only makes mistakes that need to be reviewed by humans, but it also is subject to the biases and other human weaknesses of the people that designed it and whose work was placed into the model to create its countless outputs.
There are no easy answers to any of these complex questions, but the one thing that is for sure is that this technology is not going anywhere anytime soon. The faster that people learn about this technology and how to incorporate it into their work and personal lives, the more agile and comfortable they will be in our evolving landscape.
For those who are simply interested in jumping on trends (and there's no shame in that), there are ample opportunities for monetizing content around these technologies. The interest in using these tools exists in all business areas, learning how to use them will give you a leg up.
Get ChatGPT
ChatGPT is free to use. Simply visit chat.openai.com. There is also a Plus account available for $20 per month which enables quicker connection to the server when it is overloaded (which it often is).