ChatGPT: How Does It Work Internally?
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Patrick Meyer
Originally published on Towards AI.
Launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022, a new conversational assistant is making a buzz on the Internet with the incredible quality of the answers it provides.
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ChatGPT owes its incredible success to its ability to automatically generate text similar to that of a human being and its ability to take into account the context of a conversation while avoiding the shortcomings of its ancestors, such as Tay from Microsoft or Galactica from Meta.
Tay had become racist and xenophobic in 24 hours. Galactica was generating nonsense and misinformation and could give its opinion on racism in a very convincing way. Tay was shut down within 24 hours, and Galactica was… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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