Definition
ChatGPT is an autogenerative system/chatbot that is based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and can access countless data sources based on ‘pre-training’ in such a way that it can generate its own speech (text or audio) to respond to human requests.
To understand this in more detail, we need a few more definitions:
Chatbot – a chatbot is an application that uses artificial intelligence to converse with people in natural language. Many companies are already using chatbots in their customer services to answer simple, standardised (and increasingly more complex) queries from their customers without having to deploy staff. However, there are usually still human employees in the background who can take over if the customer has follow-up questions or complex issues need to be explained.
GPT – stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. The ChatGPT converts information from a repertoire of data that it can access in a previously ‘trained’ way so that it creates a text itself (written or in audio format) that can hardly be distinguished from texts created by humans.
ChatGPT’s own definition of ChatGPT
We ‘asked’ ChatGPT itself for a definition of ChatGPT by simply typing ‘explain ChatGPT’ into the command line. This was the answer:
‘ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI. It is a machine learning model that has been trained on a huge amount of text data to generate human-like text based on a nudge.
ChatGPT uses a variant of the Transformer architecture and can generate a variety of outputs, including text completions, answers to questions and even poems or stories. The model has been trained on a diverse range of topics, enabling it to generate text that is influenced by different aspects of human knowledge and language use. The goal of ChatGPT is to enable natural language interactions between humans and AI systems.’