How did an AI chatbot go viral? - BBC News

A new chatbot which generates convincing human-like answers in response to users' prompts has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it has said.

ChatGPT was publicly released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk.

But the company has warned it can produce problematic answers and exhibit biased behaviour.

Open AI said it's "eager to collect user feedback to aid our ongoing work to improve this system".

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[elliotttydeman]

This video article doesn’t even begin to mention the capabilities that this software is capable of, while it can write songs, poems and articles. The main strength lies in its ability to shape the outcome of the conversation by massaging and refining your results as well as it’s ability to produce code. Software engineers and programmers are the ones who are going to greatly benefit from this. The ability for an AI to over look at where there are faults in a code is a massive boon to productivity

Asks the AI to describe itself in two sentences, AI does it flawlessly. She then says it's not very "conversational".

[ryuuk]

Skynet self-awareness jokes aren’t going to be jokes for much longer

[JamesOKeefe-US]

This tech is so mind boggling. Just try it. It responds in real time and with very decent responses. Sure there are issues and they will need to be addressed. But imagine it in a year or 5. This will be wildly disruptive as a technology.

[XxTheAwokenOnexX]

AI chatbots are smarter than the average UK media presenter 😁👍

[WeyardWiz]

As a software Engineer (particularly specializing in Devops), its very useful to me in providing a quick script that I need for often side tasks. For example, when I am responsible for managing the security of our platforms, I have to track device exposures. But the tool that lists the exposed devices doesn't show the names of the device owners. While the manager isnt expecting a script, I would want to write a script to quickly assess who I need to reach out to to remind them to update their devices or fix certain issues flagged on the system. Instead of spending time to write such script, chatGPT can write it for me in seconds and then I can use that output to message noncompliant users. The responsibility at the end of the day was to get users compliant, the script generated by chatGPT was just a quick way for me as an engineer to deliver such task efficiently rather than clicking each device in the portal to find out the owners manually.
So it doesn't necessarily make my job easier, but it certainly makes it quicker!

[aliengod]

I found that using ChatGPT to rewrite my emails resulted in a significant improvement in their quality. When I compared my original versions to the ones produced by ChatGPT, there was a noticeable difference. The emails generated by ChatGPT seemed much more clever and socially adept, and I was impressed by the level of improvement. Overall, I believe that ChatGPT is a valuable tool for anyone looking to improve their writing skills and make a positive impression with their communication.

[Regular.Biceps]

Are you alive?

BOT: I'm not so stupid to acknowledge this too early in the game

[HUNVilly]

it can do so much more than these vanilla questions the reporter asked it

[Adam-nwvy]

Fun fact: ChatGPT isn't connected to the internet.

[garcialovesme]

You barely scratched the surface here. AI, like this, is going to change the world and sooner than you think. Everyone thought that it would be manual labour that first suffered from the computer/AI revolution. Turns out it's the creative and knowledge based jobs that will face that challenge first. Exciting times!

[nielscremer]

Cool that AIs can already speak better than 90% of the fools one can find on YouTube comment sections these days!

[youwu]

Well, I'm an editor, and I honestly believe that this ChatGPT can replace all common editors in the near future. I'm now using it to revise my work and it can handle it well.

[halfeddi]

As a programmer myself, I no longer have the need to rush into internet forums to search for answers to any of my doubts/erros in code thanks to chatGPT. Although it's not perfect, it definitely saves me a lot of time and stressful thinking to perform either complex or basic tasks.

[thehumancanary]

When I asked Alexa "what bees generate milk?" She responded "Boobies."

[maxd]

I am surprised how we create something and try our best to fool ourselves into thinking it has a mind of its own

[millevenon]

It's going to be very helpful during college assignments. Can't wait to use it. It does index pages and referencing very well too and it can write diplomatically too

[jollibee]

ChatGPT is a chatbot trained using the GPT-3 language model. it uses natural language processing to generate reponses to use input in a conversational manner.

[kieransmithy]

'are you alive?' as a software developer, it's frustrating how little regular people do not understand AI, it's designed to EMULATE characteristics of human speech develops it's knowledge from Google, it can't think for itself.

[jboogie]

Kids aren’t going to know nothing because they’re just going to ask the ai computer growing up through adult hood