On March 14, 2023, the company behind the ChatGPT app released a long-awaited update of its AI technology, GPT-4, that it said would be safer and more accurate than its predecessor. — AFP
One of the publications I write for features occasional contributors who submit opinion articles. Last week, my editor told me, “I don’t think this week’s article was written by the usual guy. I think it was written by ChatGPT”.
For those who have avoided the news in recent months, ChatGPT is a human-friendly interface to an artificially intelligent (AI) backend. I wrote about it last year, describing GPT-3 as a neural network machine-learning model, trained with Internet data to generate any type of text (“The intelligence of AI is limited by its creators, us dumb humans”, The Star, May 15, 2022).
