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In the latest of the AI-makes-us-all-look-like-total-idiots saga, the internet has been stumped over ChatGPT and what exactly the platform can’t do.
The chatbot has even caught the attention of the New York Times who featured this tweet in its most recent article about ChatGPT and all its strange functions:
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So, what is ChatGPT?
In the words of ChatGPT itself:
GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence model that is used for generating human-like text. It was developed by OpenAI and has been trained on a large dataset of human-generated text, allowing it to generate text that is similar in style and content to the text it was trained on.
GPT has been used in a variety of applications, including chatbots, language translation, and text summarization. It is a type of language model, which means it is designed to predict the next word…