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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an essential part of our daily lives, ranging from voice-activated assistants like Siri and Alexa to recommendation algorithms on Netflix or Amazon. One exciting development in the field of AI is the rise of language models. These are AIs that understand, generate, and interpret human language. Among the many language models, one stands out: ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) architecture. 

So what does Chat GPT do? Well, it’s primarily designed to generate human-like text based on the input it’s given. You give it a prompt, such as “Write a short story about a dragon,” and it generates a response. This might be a full short story, a continuation of the story, or perhaps a series of ideas for stories about dragons.

Chat GPT has been trained on diverse internet text. However, it’s important to note that it doesn’t know specifics about which documents were in its training set or access any personal data unless explicitly provided during the conversation. Training a model like GPT-4 requires a large amount of text data, but the specifics of which documents were part of the training is unknown. It doesn’t know anything about specific books, authors, sources, databases, academic journals, or any specifics about a proprietary database. It generates responses based on patterns and information it learned during training.

This brings us to another essential point: Chat GPT doesn’t possess beliefs, opinions, or consciousness. It doesn’t have feelings, desires, or fears. It doesn’t know who is using it, and it doesn’t have the ability to remember or learn from past interactions. Every prompt given to it is processed independently.

Chat GPT has a wide range of applications, including but not limited to drafting emails or other pieces of writing, answering questions, creating written content, tutoring in a range of subjects, translating languages, simulating characters for video games, and even aiding in mental health practices as a tool to facilitate conversations.

Yet, it’s essential to approach these applications with caution and an understanding of the system’s limitations. Misinterpretations, nonsensical answers, and biases in the responses are among the challenges that still need to be addressed.

Nevertheless, the development of Chat GPT represents a significant step forward in AI language models. It is helping to pave the way towards more sophisticated and helpful AI tools in the future.

Writing the prompt

ChatGPT possesses an array of capabilities, spanning from simple text generation to more complex creative writing, answering factual questions, offering explanations, and simulating conversation. It can write like a human, with the ability to understand and continue a wide range of conversations and prompts, giving it wide applicability across various domains. Below is a table illustrating different prompt examples and the kind of responses you might expect from ChatGPT.

PromptExample Response
“Write a short story about a dragon.”“Once upon a time, in the highlands of Fyrolia, lived a benevolent dragon named Erogon. He had iridescent scales, fiery breath, and a heart as warm as the sun.”
“What’s the capital of Canada?”“The capital of Canada is Ottawa.”
“Translate ‘Hello, how are you?’ into French.”“‘Hello, how are you?’ translates to ‘Bonjour, comment vas-tu?’ in French.”
“Write a poem about spring.”“Spring arrives with a gentle sigh, Awakening flowers under the sky. Petals unfold, in colors so bold, Under the sun’s warm, golden eye.”
“Give me tips for a healthy lifestyle.”“1. Regular exercise is key. 2. Maintain a balanced diet. 3. Prioritize sleep. 4. Stay hydrated. 5. Regular check-ups. 6. Practice mindfulness and stress management.”
“Who won the world series in 2020?”“The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 2020.”
“Draft an email to my team about a project update.”“Subject: Project Update…Dear team, I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to provide a brief update on our project…”
“Create a character for a fantasy novel.”“Name: Eldrin Stormshadow. Race: Elf. Class: Ranger. Background: Raised in the mystical forests of Eldoria, Eldrin is a master archer with a mysterious past and a loyal wolf companion.”

Keep in mind that the responses generated by ChatGPT are based on patterns and structures it learned during training, and do not stem from its own experiences or beliefs, because it does not have any. It generates each response independently, with no memory of past interactions.

 

The evolution of transformers

 

Model Year Description
GPT 2018 Introduced by OpenAI, this was the initial version of the Generative Pretrained Transformer. It demonstrated promising capabilities in generating coherent and diverse paragraphs, introducing the concept of transformers for language understanding.
GPT-2 2019 A significant expansion of GPT, GPT-2 was much larger in terms of model size and data it was trained on. It showed dramatic improvements in the quality of output and was capable of generating impressively human-like text.
GPT-3 2020 With 175 billion learning parameters, GPT-3 was an even larger and more powerful model. It showed capabilities beyond just language generation, including translation, question-answering, and rudimentary reasoning.
ChatGPT 2022 A model specially fine-tuned for conversations, ChatGPT was an application of GPT-3.5 that excelled in generating interactive dialogues. It was capable of engaging users in diverse topics, making it ideal for applications like chatbots and virtual assistants.
GPT-4 2023  GPT-4 brings further improvements in terms of understanding context, generating relevant responses, and maintaining coherence over longer passages of text.

 

Is AI conscious?

One question that frequently arises is: “Is AI conscious?” It’s a profound question, with implications that reach into philosophy, cognitive science, and ethics.

To understand whether AI can be conscious, we first need to define what consciousness means. In the simplest terms, consciousness refers to an individual’s awareness of their unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environment. It’s subjective and personal, meaning that my conscious experience is fundamentally different from yours.

The consensus in the AI research community is that AI, including highly sophisticated models like GPT-4, is not conscious. AI models do not have personal experiences, feelings, or subjective awareness. They don’t perceive the world or have a sense of self. AI operates based on algorithms and trained patterns, not personal experiences or emotions.

AI, including models like ChatGPT, operates based on patterns in the data it was trained on. If you ask ChatGPT how it “feels,” it might generate a response that sounds like it’s expressing emotions because it was trained on text data where humans expressed emotions. But that doesn’t mean it’s experiencing those emotions—or any emotions at all. AI doesn’t have feelings, thoughts, or consciousness.

 

One might wonder about AI’s ability to make decisions and think creatively. While it’s true that AI can generate creative outputs and make decisions based on the input it’s given, this isn’t the same as human thought or decision-making. When AI “makes decisions,” it’s choosing the most likely output based on its training data and the algorithms that guide its operation, not thinking or consciously deciding in the way humans do.

Additionally, it’s important to remember that AI, as it exists today, doesn’t have a continuous existence. It doesn’t remember past interactions unless specifically designed to do so (and even then, it’s not “remembering” in the human sense), and it doesn’t anticipate future interactions. It doesn’t have desires, fears, or aspirations. Each interaction with AI is standalone and doesn’t contribute to a continuing conscious experience.

That being said, the question of AI consciousness remains a complex and intriguing one. The boundary of AI’s capabilities continues to expand, and ongoing developments may yet lead us into new, uncharted territories. But for now, and the foreseeable future, AI remains an incredibly powerful tool, rather than a conscious entity.

In conclusion, while AI has achieved remarkable strides in mimicking human language and problem-solving abilities, it remains fundamentally different from human consciousness. AI processes information and generates responses, but it doesn’t experience the world subjectively. It is our responsibility, as developers, users, and regulators of AI, to understand these distinctions and apply AI ethically and responsibly.

 

How did we get to ChatGPT

For many years, humanity based its calculations on simple machines. The abacus is an example of how addition and multiplication could be more easily tackled without resorting to mental or graphical calculations. More recently, with mechanics and subsequently electronics, calculators have allowed us to perform roots, exponentials, integrals etc.

Similarly, even the operations we have always performed were simple operations. Most of the calculations that we carry out during our daily lives are purely additions or multiplications. Only during the last years of high school, and eventually during university, students do have the opportunity to confront something more advanced, such as function analysis, derivatives, and differential calculus. But these are not, in any case, topics that are often taken up in non-school discussions.

In the last decade, however, the rapid progress of technology, that is, the computing power of hardware units, as well as the expansion of the speed of information transmission, has brought about a new art in our daily lives, the neural one, typical of the complexity of our mind. Object recognition, voice assistants, neural networks capable of writing reports and essays automatically: millions of small agents, algorithms, take part every day in the activities we carry out, to significantly facilitate or enhance the quality of work and information.

A representation of the Transformer, the architecture on which ChatGPT is based

 

Generative networks

At the heart of all this lies a new type of computation, the neural one, which is essentially based on derivatives and multiplications. However, its significance is much broader: inserting all the values of a data set into a mathematical function and then calculating the derivative of that function tending towards 0 (with 0 being the reference value that one wants to represent or obtain) allows the neural algorithm to generalize on those values as a whole, controlling them all at once, and resulting in a process that is very similar to how our minds work.

This “controlling” of all elements of a data set (images, texts or other data) allows this new type of computation to exercise intelligent functions and thus perform discriminating operations (e.g., reporting whether an image contains a license plate or not) and, conversely, generative ones (generating an image containing a specific object).

 

Mathematically, neural computation is not overly sophisticated, but the result it generates is as complex as the functions typical of intelligence. And that is why it is called artificial intelligence. Following the Aristotelian saying “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” the results of neural algorithms also have properties that increase the value of individual starting units. A particular example of this is the fact that the most recent generative neural networks (e.g., those that generate images) can draw almost anything and are materially composed of a file of a handful of gigabytes. Almost all images can be drawn with such tools, and yet they do not “weigh” more than ten thousand of them, resulting in efficiency. Similarly, the same neural networks that generate images have proven to be powerful image compression algorithms.