What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT Review, Features

ChatGPT is a chatbot based on artificial intelligence technology, developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) technology and is a chatbot based on a large-scale natural language processing model.

About ChatGPT

ChatGPT is able to imitate human natural language communication, understand human questions and answer them. It learns the grammar, semantics and usage of language by training on a large amount of text data, and can conduct some simple conversations, such as answering questions and providing suggestions. ChatGPT has a wide range of applications in the field of artificial intelligence, including customer service, entertainment, education, medical care and so on.

Advantages of ChatGPT

ChatGPT has many advantages, the most notable of which are its intelligence, convenience and reliability. It can provide users with answers and suggestions anytime and anywhere, without waiting for responses from human customer service, which can help users save time and energy. In addition, ChatGPT can also automate tasks, improve work efficiency, and help companies save costs.

Development History

• At the end of November 2022, the artificial intelligence conversational chatbot ChatGPT was launched and quickly became popular on social media. In just 5 days, the number of registered users exceeded 1 million.

• By the end of January 2023, ChatGPT's monthly active users exceeded 100 million, making it the fastest growing consumer application in history.

• On February 2, 2023, OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence (AI) company, released ChatGPT Plus, a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT. ChatGPT Plus will be available at a price of $20 per month, and subscribers will receive a more stable and faster service than the free version, as well as priority to try new features and optimizations.

• On February 2, 2023, Microsoft officially announced that all of its products will integrate ChatGPT. In addition to the previously announced search engine Bing and Office, Microsoft will also integrate ChatGPT into the cloud computing platform Azure. Azure's OpenAI service will allow developers to access AI models.

• On February 3, 2023, IT industry leaders are worried that the famous artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been used by hackers to plan cyber attacks.

• A report by Black Berry surveyed 500 IT decision-makers in the UK about their views on the revolutionary technology ChatGPT, and found that more than three-quarters (76%) believed that foreign countries were already using ChatGPT in cyber warfare against other countries. Nearly half (48%) believed that in 2023, someone would maliciously use ChatGPT to cause a "successful" cyber attack.

• On February 2, 2023 local time, OpenAI, the American artificial intelligence company that developed ChatGPT, launched a paid subscription version of this application.

• On February 7, 2023, Microsoft announced the launch of the latest versions of its AI search engine Bing and Edge browser powered by ChatGPT. Microsoft CEO said, "A new era has arrived for search engines." In the early morning of the 8th, at a press conference in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft announced that it would integrate OpenAI's long-rumored GPT-4 model into Bing and Edge browsers.

• On February 16, 2023, Microsoft's initiative to integrate artificial intelligence chatbot functions into its Bing search engine and Edge browser began to show results, with 71% of testers approving the AI-optimized Bing search results.

• On February 16, 2023, after conducting market research, the Bailian Intelligent Qiankebao team decided to integrate ChatGPT, which is known for its "content generation and intelligent interaction", and officially launched the intelligent marketing assistant.

• On February 27, 2023, Snapchat is launching a chatbot based on the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT. This robot, called "My AI", will be fixed on the chat tab of the application interface. Although it will initially only be available to Snapchat Plus paid subscribers for $3.99 per month, the ultimate goal is to make the robot available to Snapchat's 750 million monthly active users.

• On March 15, 2023, OpenAI officially launched GPT-4. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model, which means it supports image and text input as well as text output, has strong image recognition capabilities, and the text input limit has been increased to 25,000 words. The characteristics of GPT-4 are, first, it has a larger number of trainings; second, it supports multiple output and input forms; and third, it has a stronger learning ability in professional fields.

• In March 2023, Google announced that ChatGPT-Bard officially started testing.

• On March 24, 2023, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT supports third-party plug-ins, removing the limitation that it cannot connect to the Internet.