Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Insights into ChatGPT’s versatility

Insights into ChatGPT’s versatility

Discover how ChatGPT's advancements transform it into a versatile tool for programming and information processing, enhancing AI's responsiveness and...

The key insights from these article sections are: - OpenAI has made changes to large language models (LLMs) like GPT3 to make them more responsive to human interaction, allowing them to be used as powerful, general-purpose information-processing tools. - These changes enable AI models like GPT3.5 and GPT4 to be used in a programming manner, using new data instead of training, making AI more of a general-purpose tool. - Generative AI, like GPT4, is probabilistic and predicts the probability of words and phrases based on input, making it flexible but also unpredictable. - Training LLMs involves using gradient descent to adjust the neural network’s parameters and make incremental improvements to produce coherent output.

Original article: How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an anything tool

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