ChatGPT: everything about the controversial tool

Pass the exam that qualifies doctors in the United States of America, writing a thesis in just one day, taking any and all types of tests without any problem, always being approved with distinction... all of this could be part of the script for a film that follows the life of a gifted person, with above-average intelligence, but no: these are just some of the achievements already achieved by ChatGPT.

Considered one of the most advanced and effective language models ever created, ChatGPT – short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer – is a publicly available chatbot that, through artificial intelligence , promises to respond to any question or challenge posed to it, always maintaining a conversational tone.

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Created and launched in November last year by OpenAI, a company founded in 2015 by Elon Musk (who left the company in 2018) and other associates, the language model is trained and developed in a system of machine learning, which allows you to improve your knowledge in a human-like way. Despite some flaws and possible errors that have already been detected, the capacity of this tool is surprising, and is already considered a historic advance in the field of artificial intelligence. 

According to website tests SEO.ai, ChatGPT is available in over a hundred languages, including Portuguese (from Brazil), but its maximum performance is achieved when the user uses English. Upon its launch, in just five days, the tool was used by more than one million people, who, consciously or unconsciously, contributed and continue to contribute to its development, which learns when a mistake is corrected by the user and improves its language with the millions of conversations it has daily.

Despite the more extreme examples presented at the beginning of this article, ChatGPT can be a very useful tool in our daily lives, for tasks as simple as cooking, clarifying any doubts about washing clothes or even to help you choose the ideal Refurbished computer for you. However, in the professional field, ChatGPT has been seen as a threat for certain roles, such as, for example, journalist or programmer, for being able to easily write articles and create/correct website codes.

For now, the tool is available to the general public. free form, you can test it here, with a premium plan (ChatGPT Plus) also available for those who want access to all features first-hand and priority service. Regarding the use of ChatGPT in situations where this should not happen, as in the examples presented at the beginning of this article, OpenAI has already made available a tool that allows check whether or not texts were written using ChatGPT, so that this does not happen.