What Is the Technology Behind ChatGPT?

What Is ChatGPT? A Basic Explainer

Still confused by the most popular AI chatbot? Here's everything you need to know about ChatGPT.

(Credit: René Ramos; OpenAI)

In November 2022, San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that quickly became a sensation and captured the interest and imagination of people across the world. ChatGPT became the fastest-growing app in history, reaching 100 million users just two months after its launch.

A lot of promise and concern surrounds ChatGPT and similar AI systems, also known as “large language models” (LLMs)—huge AI neural networks that can process and generate human-like text. People have put the chatbot to all kinds of creative uses, including writing articles and emails, designing websites, and writing software code. But concerns have arisen about potentially such as facilitating the spread of misinformation, phishing emails scams, and allowing students to cheat on tests.

Here's everything you need to know about ChatGPT.


What Is the Technology Behind ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is powered by a deep neural network. DNNs are software architectures that are roughly inspired by the structure of the brain. They learn to perform tasks by processing many examples and tuning their parameters to approximate the common patterns they spot across those examples.

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