ChatGPT and the AI challenge

Context: There is a great deal of speculation about how the recently launched ChatGPT will impact a huge number of human job roles, from customer service to computer programming.

About ChatGPT:

• ChatGPT is a prototype dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language and generating impressively detailed human-like written text.
• It is the latest evolution of the GPT – or Generative Pre-Trained Transformer – family of text-generating AIs.
• It is trained using a machine learning technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
• It can simulate dialogue, answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests.

Core function of ChatGPT:

• Like other language models, Chat-GPT is designed to generate human-like text based on the input it receives.
• It is trained on a large text dataset and can generate a wide range of responses to various prompts and questions.
• This helps them mimic speech patterns while dispatching encyclopedic knowledge.
• Basically, that means that it is a computer program that can understand and “talk” to us in a way that is very close to conversing with an actual human.
• A very clever and knowledgeable human at that, who knows around 175 billion pieces of information and is able to recall any of them almost instantly.
• Although the core function of a chatbot is to mimic a human conversationalist, ChatGPT is versatile.
• For example, it can write and debug computer programs, to compose music, teleplays, fairy tales, and student essays; to answer test questions .

Significance of Chat GPT

• Increased productivity: Having Chat GPT implemented can help businesses improve their efficiency, allowing them to provide better and faster service to their clients.
• Increased Accuracy: As more data is gathered and the model is fine-tuned on specific tasks, the generated text is expected to increase in both its accuracy and its coherence.
• Quick responses: With ChatGPT you can be sure of quick responses. GPT can promptly respond to incoming messages. It makes real-time conversations a breeze.
• Reduced Expenses: Providing support and customer care using ChatGPT can be accomplished at a very reasonable cost.
  • Having ChatGPT will allow businesses to hire a smaller number of customer care personnel to handle client inquiries, which in turn will lower the overhead costs of the firm.
• Support for Various Languages: ChatGPT is beneficial for individuals and businesses who wish to communicate with speakers of other languages, as Open AI works on models that support several languages.

Limitations:

• It may generate incorrect information, and create “biased”.
• It could give “plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical”
• It can sometimes overuse certain phrases.
• The chatbot displayed clear racial and sexist biases.
• The chatbot gives answers which are grammatically correct and read well– though some have pointed out that these lack context and substance, which is largely true.

Ethical concerns associated with ChatGPT:

• Malicious and Dangerous Coding: Some users have been experimenting with the chatbot’s potential to carry out malicious actions.
  • It has been claimed by several users that malicious and dangerous coding is generated by the Chatbot despite their claims to be amateurs.
• Plagiarism Chokepoint: Plagiarism in academics is not a new issue, but ChatGPT has altered how AI is utilized to produce original writing.
  • It is difficult to identify plagiarized information as a result. Teachers and academicians have also expressed concerns over ChatGPT’s impact on written assignments.
• Creation of Biased Data/information: One concern is the potential for bias in the generated code, as the training data used to create the code generator may contain biases that are reflected in the generated code.
• Curtailing the Job Opportunity: There is a concern that the use of code generators could lead to the loss of jobs for human programmers.
• Generation of Phishing Email: ChatGPT is set up to reject requests to write phishing emails or malicious code but in actual sense ChatGPT is producing an outstanding phishing email.

Way Forward:

Anticipating possible futures requires engagement with the opportunities and challenges flagged by ChatGPT. Elon Musk wrote that “ChatGPT is scary good. we are not far from dangerously strong AI”. Thus,  Current requirement is mapping out and planning for the changes that will be required in the education system, labour codes and new commodities that are bound to emerge as a result.

Previous Year Questions

Q.1) With reference to Web 3.0, consider the following statements:

1. Web 3.0 technology enables people to control their own data.
2. In Web 3.0 world, there can be blockchain based social networks.
3. Web 3.0 is operated by users collectively rather than a corporation

Which of the following given above are correct? (2022)

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Q.2) Which one of the following is the context in which the term “qubit” is mentioned? (2022)

1. Cloud Services
2. Quantum Computing
3. Visible Light Communication Technologies
4. Wireless Communication Technologies