What is ChatGPT and how does it work?

By McCreadie Andias,
ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code.
It was created by parent Company OpenAI once founded by Elon Musk, the company launched the innovation on November 30,2o22.
The platform was first free to register and use while it was in its research – testing and feedback-collection phase until February 1 where the company introduced a paid subscription for the version called chatGPT plus.
According to Elon Musk, a former OpenAI founder, the innovation is a big deal.
“ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI,” Musk said.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief, said on Twitter that ChatGPT had more than 1 million users in its first five days after launching.
According to analysis by Swiss bank UBS, ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. In January, only two months after its launch, UBS analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users. For comparison, it took nine months for TikTok to reach 100 million.
Users can access ChatGPT simply by visiting chat.openai.com and creating an OpenAI account.
Once a user signs in, the user is able to start chatting away with ChatGPT. Get conversation started by asking a questions about the specifics he or she might be interested to discover.
In terms of usage ,The model has many functions in addition to answering simple questions, such as composing essays, describing art in great detail, creating AI art prompts, and having philosophical conversations, and it can even code for you.
The app is currently trending on twitter with many users fascinated by how the app has is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response irregardless of the nature of the question, with other users sharing hilarious experiences with the app.
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