our goal is to make you don't always
know whether you're talking to a human
or a computer pretty obvious if you're
hanging out with Tesla's Optimus here
but sometimes less so when you're
relying on typing and texting a number
of tech firms are working on the future
of chat Bots an AI platform trained to
engage in conversation and one in
particular has gone viral
it's called chat GPT from The Firm open
Ai and more than a million people have
had a play with it since it launched it
gets its wealth of information and
styles of writing from the internet I'm
going to let it show you what it can do
all by itself the first question explain
chat GPT in two sentences
chat GPT is a chatbot trained using the
gpt3 language model it uses natural
language processing to generate
responses to user input in a
conversational manner not so
conversational so far let's try another
question are you alive
no I'm a virtual assistant created by a
computer program I do not have
Consciousness or the ability to feel
emotions like a human I exist only to
provide information and assist with
tasks within the limitations of my
programming
foreign
here we go I've come to Glasgow
University to meet Dr Jeff Dalton a
senior lecturer in Computing science to
see what he makes of it I think that if
I were to ask this on an exam that is
probably a low beat
Dr Dalton spent a lot of time running
questions through chat GPT chat GPT is
very good at generating natural language
right now it can generate a paragraph
that can generate a poem its limits are
it can't generate an article you can't
write a PhD thesis I can't write a
specialized report so it can't do those
things because it's fundamentally
Limited in the fact that it doesn't
understand what it's talking about
but is it growing too quickly
practitioners are surprised by how
quickly these modern systems are
developing and some of them are starting
to think we may have systems as smart as
humans in as little as 10 years which is
soon as most people thought previously
as platforms like chat GPT develop what
more could they be capable of maybe
they'll replace internet search engines
maybe they'll generate content for
websites maybe they could even write
reports like this although I'm not quite
sure where that leaves me hmm
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