What is ChatGPT?
What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by AI research company OpenAI. Released in November 2022, it could have conversations on topics ranging from history to philosophy, generate songs in the style of Taylor Swift or Billy Joel, and suggest edits to computer programming code. In March 2023, OpenAI said it would upgrade it to handle visual information as well, such as answering questions about the content of a picture. ChatGPT is trained on a vast collection of articles, images, websites and social-media posts scraped from the Internet, as well as real-time conversations—primarily in English—with human contractors employed by OpenAI. It learns to copy the grammar and structure of writing and shows frequently used phrases. It also learns to recognize shapes and patterns in images, such as the shape of a cat, baby or shirt. It can also match words and phrases to shapes and patterns, asking users about the content of an image, such as what the cat i...