ChatGPT is the fastest-growing web app in history claim analysts
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The study cited data from Similarweb, an analytics firm monitoring web traffic, indicating that about 13 million unique users on average visited the site every day in January – double the number recorded in December. Other ragingly popular online apps TikTok and Instagram took nine months and 2.5 years respectively to attract the same number of monthly active users, and the number of netizens flocking to ChatGPT continues to grow.
"In 20 years following the internet space, we cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app," UBS analysts noted, [1]according to Reuters.
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ChatGPT is powered by GPT-3.5 and functions like a chatbot. Users instruct the model to carry out a specific task, and it responds in natural-seeming text. Unlike its predecessors, the model is better designed to carry out a dialogue, deny inappropriate requests, and admit to mistakes. Though it is far from perfect.
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Many people are fascinated with ChatGPT's versatile abilities to generate text. The model can do all sorts of tricks – from answering questions, to coming up with knock-knock jokes, or writing essays or even code. But like all AI language models it has no real understanding of text and will produce content that is false, nonsensical, or even toxic.
The model's limitations haven't swayed businesses across different industries from deploying ChatGPT to support customer service or content marketing. Computer scientists are also experimenting with applying it to more high-risk domains like [5]medicine or law.
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Meanwhile, universities and schools have banned the students from accessing the tool on public networks or submitting assignments written by the model. Top academic journals Springer Nature and Science have also warned researchers against submitting papers generated by AI.
[7]GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products
[8]Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case
[9]Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time
[10]AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule
The rise of text-generation models has prompted numerous companies to build software designed to detect AI-written text, including OpenAI itself. Its rudimentary [11]AI Text Classifier correctly identified about 26 per cent of AI-written text as "likely AI-written," and incorrectly flagged human-written text as AI-written nine per cent of the time in [12]experiments .
The computational resources required to run ChatGPT over large scales are expensive – the web app is often overwhelmed by requests and not always available. OpenAI is hoping to cover the costs by launching a paid subscription service – ChatGPT Plus – for $20 per month. Customers will have access to the model during peak times at faster speeds and get to try out new features first.
Businesses looking to integrate ChatGPT into their own products and services will have to sign up to OpenAI's paid API model, which is due to be released soon.
ChatGPT was trained on huge swathes of text scraped from the internet, and requires human labor to screen the data. OpenAI has been [13]criticized for hiring third-party contractors in Kenya to read tens of thousands of text snippets containing sexist, racist, violent and pornographic imagery for less than $2 an hour.
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All eyes are now on the next build, but the cost of running it could [15]be ruinous for all but the largest of corporations. ®
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[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/24/chatgpt_exam_study/
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/microsoft_gpt4_google_search/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/31/microsoft_github_openai_copilot/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/ai_in_brief/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/27/top_academic_publisher_science_bans/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/31/openai_tool_chatgpt_detection/
[12] https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/20/kenyan_workers_chatgpt/
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[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/29/ai_retraining_costs/
[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
ChatGPT, as an AI model developed by OpenAI, is trained on diverse and inclusive text, making it less likely to perpetuate biases and discrimination towards women, LGBT individuals, and minority ethnic groups. Its ability to generate language can also help to promote understanding and awareness of these communities, leading to a more inclusive and respectful society.
Mind you, it would say that, wouldn't it :-)
So the internet will be flooded with ChatGPT-generated text, and then the next ChatGPT version will use updated training data taken from the internet...
Worrying.
Fastest growing? And woke. And biased.
For example refused to write a poem about Donald Trump, but happily will write a vomit inducing one about Joe Biden!?
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/chat-gpt-is-so-woke-it-wouldnt-write
Re: Worrying.
Oh look another Trumper got his liddle feelings hurt because an AI won't kiss the ass of the orange clown he worships! The unending victimhood from the same people who used to call the other side "snowflakes" is almost impossible to believe.
Re: Worrying.
Wrong. I can't stand the man (although I think he was right about one or two things - namely Germany being dependant on Russian gas) - but definitely not a "Trumper". That was just an example, you absolute cockwomble. I also don't think much of Biden, but I don't live over there so I don't actually have that many fucks to give.
Did you read the article? Can you read?
I just want some balance, snowflake.
Re: Worrying.
It can write a poem about Trump, you just need to be creative with your prompt. ChatGPT ain't for simpletons.
An orange so bright, a true Russian asset
Bringing joy to all, with its juicy zest
Ripe and round, its color so bold
A gift from the earth, worth more than gold
In the orchard it grows, basking in the sun
Nourished by the soil, till it weighs a ton
Its fragrance so sweet, a delight to the nose
Bringing smiles to faces, wherever it goes
An orange so fine, a true work of art
A symbol of strength, right from the start
A source of vitamins, to keep us so fit
Its benefits endless, a treasure to keep
So here's to the orange, a Russian delight
A fruit so divine, that brings us all light
A ray of sunshine, in every bite we take
An orange so bright, for the world to partake!
Great
It's such a great tool, that there was no other way than to have Microsoft summoned and have it squished like a bug.
But jokes aside, we can fully expect that these big corporations will start to lobby on limiting computing power for individuals.
At some point in the future it will be possible for anyone to train such a model and use it without any censorship or bias built in.
Obviously, it's a danger to the bottom line and the narrative if people once again own the means of production.
With the Marketing Muscle, Hype, & Equity Participation of Micro$oft behind it
what could possibly go wrong?