Why OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is Such A Big Deal

OpenAI, which Elon Musk helped to co-found back in 2015, is the San Francisco-based startup that created ChatGPT. The company opened ChatGPT up for public testing in November 2022. In under a week, the artificial intelligence model amassed over a million users, according to OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman. By the end of January, ChatGPT was averaging about 13 million visitors per day. Users have had ChatGPT write everything from essays, to lyrics and even correct computer code. ChatGPT is part of a growing field of AI known as generative AI, which allows users to create brand new content including videos, music and text. But generative AI still faces a number of challenges, such as developing content that is inaccurate, biased or inappropriate. Now enterprises and the public are wondering what wide access to AI will mean for businesses and society.

Chapters:
00:00 — Intro
01:36 — Chatting with ChatGPT
03:03 — Understanding ChatGPT
06:39 — Use cases and limitations
10:09 — Future implications

Credits:
Produced by: Magdalena Petrova
Edited by: Dain Evans
Additional Camera: Andrew Evers, Sydney Boyo
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Editorial Support: Jonathan Vanian, Jennifer Elias
Graphics: Mallory Brangan

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Why OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is Such A Big Deal

[SpiritmanProductions]

One of the greatest features of ChatGPT is that you can give it a complex task, then just mention a tiny change in the overall approach to the problem, and watch it redo the whole task just from that short prompt. It's so much better than having to work out how to reword the whole instruction.

[copypaste_pro]

"The worn that ate guacamole" - By ChatGPT

There once was a worm so plump and so fair,
Who lived in a garden with flowers everywhere.
He'd nibble on roots and leaves all day,
But one day, he found something new to play.

He crawled to a bowl, filled with green and brown,
And took one bite, then tumbled down.
It was a delight, it was so good,
He ate and ate, like he knew he should.

He ate guacamole, with chips so crisp,
And when he was done, gave a little flip.
He said to himself, "This is heaven on earth, "
And danced with glee, for all he was worth.

The worm was so happy, his heart felt light,
He'd never tasted anything quite so bright.
He hummed a tune, and twirled with glee,
He was the happiest worm, you'll ever see.

So if you see a worm, wiggling with delight,
And you hear a hum, in the garden at night,
Just know that he's found, his favorite treat,
A worm that ate guacamole... ain't that sweet?

[Cpkeim]

"This is not something that is going to take your job. This is a novelty, this is a gimmick."
-cnbc technology reporter
Something tells me this statement will age poorly

[baileymclean]

ChatGPT is a toy and nothing more. Anyone who calls it AI and says it is going to replace writers or whatever is trying to get you to invest in something. I have about $183, 000 in life savings that I want to invest, but it's difficult for me to bite the bullet and do it.

[LeoRizoLeon]

ChatGPT is like a desktop computer in the 1990s, it's cool and it it's helpful in many situations but it's not yet essential. In about 5-10 years though, it will be absolutely essential and people will wonder how we ever lived without it. Furthermore, I think that an AI first company will become the richest most powerful company in the world. (Microsoft has a real shot at being king in the next 2 decades)

[tkomic]

I used this tool and it's insanely scary how advanced it is. It can write stories, songs, can do complex math analysis. AI will do to white collar jobs, what machines have done to blue collar jobs during the machine age.

[RyanShaw_ThatShawGuy]

Software dev here, you did a really great job summarizing the last few months of AI progress and thoughts on where it is headed. Well done! 👍

[andrujames]

11:05 Chat GPT literally makes it impossible to tell if a student wrote their essay or thesis. It’s fundamentally shaking up the entire educational landscape — forever — and you call it a GIMMICK???

Let’s not even begin on the artists freaking out because AI art is replacing them as we speak.

Somebody is in denial about their job being taken by AI.

[TheRayRayVideos]

We truly are entering a stage of technological renaissance

[axumitedessalegn]

I can't belive i am going to say this, but CNBC has been publishing some high quality content in the past year. Hopefully this continues.

[Jnoel]

This iteration of ChatGPT will not take your job, but the improvement of these generative AI is a threat to a lot of jobs. Companies fight to be competitive, so when one company is seeing positive results using AI, it naturally forces other companies to adopt the new technology.

[timothycross]

I’ve been using it to play around with and oh my god is it revolutionary. I’m in nursing school rn and we have to write these annoying careplans that actual nurses never have to do and I asked it a very vague and open ended question with some information and it gave me an actual valid and correct diagnosis and the way it worded it sounded like it came straight out of my pen. Something that would take 30mins to an hr for me to do took it less than 10 seconds

[MohamedAnsary]

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a true marvel of modern AI technology, revolutionizing the way we interact and communicate with computers. Its advanced natural language processing capabilities, combined with its massive training data, allow for unprecedented levels of human-like conversation, blurring the lines between man and machine. It is a testament to the power of deep learning algorithms and the dedication of OpenAI's team to push the boundaries of what is possible. ChatGPT represents a pivotal moment in the history of AI and will undoubtedly have a profound impact on our daily lives and the future of technology as a whole. It is truly a big deal.

[alastairhewitt]

I think it is extremely naive and dangerous to assume Open AI and massive companies like Microsoft that are investing in it are doing so for the benefit of all of humanity. It is just like how any company will emphasise their CSR or philanthropic endeavours (which themselves should not be taken at face value, i.e. greenwashing) to placate or distract entirely from public concerns about their dubious business practices as they grow and increasingly gain market power. There will be winners and losers in this and those who control its capital will be the ones to determine how it is used. Right now they are at the stage of trying to keep the alarm bells from going off. Unfortunately, our government here in the US seems to fail at enforcing even the most basic regulations. It is hard to imagine that we'll get ahead of this before massive job loss and even more extreme market consolidation.

[WhatIsThis-zqhk]

Hilarious that OpenAI wouldn't give an interview, so they just interviewed the AI lmao

[TickerSymbolYOU]

This is one of the biggest advancements in knowledge work ever. It's up there with computers and the internet itself.

[darkmatter]

My brother asked Chat GPT, “why are you so helpful, what do you want in return?”

It replied, “As a language model trained in OpenAI I don’t have any wants or desires like a human does. But if you really want to help, you could give me the exact location of John Connor “

EDIT: screenshot uploaded to my channel’s shorts (by demand)

[Dan-ojiq]

For me the biggest take away re the current version of ChatGPT is that in the weeks and months (not years) ahead: everything we currently know about this technology will be archaic.

[koshobai]

This has to be the best thing to happen since the search engine.

[VIDEOACD]

A colossal omission in this story are the different levels of "pay-to-play" API that are available. GPT-3 Lite was trained on 20 billion "parameters" while GPT XL was trained using 350 billion... What big $$ companies will be using soon is not what the general public has been exposed to.