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The document discusses the capabilities and implications of ChatGPT and generative AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding its potential without succumbing to fear of AI overlords. It highlights that while AI can perform many tasks, responsible use and ethical standards are crucial to prevent chaos. Additionally, it categorizes types of generative AI and provides a brief history of OpenAI and its developments, including GPT-3 and GPT-4.

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ChatGPT_part_11

The document discusses the capabilities and implications of ChatGPT and generative AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding its potential without succumbing to fear of AI overlords. It highlights that while AI can perform many tasks, responsible use and ethical standards are crucial to prevent chaos. Additionally, it categorizes types of generative AI and provides a brief history of OpenAI and its developments, including GPT-3 and GPT-4.

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Breaking the spell of heartless

machine overlords
ChatGPT presents as a deceptively simple software program. You
ask; it answers. At first glance there appears to be nothing more
to it. Once you understand that its performance hinges on your
own abilities, you can feel a bit heady — but also pressured to get
it right.

When you grok just how much ChatGPT can conceivably do, you’ll
likely feel overwhelmed and more than a bit threatened. Therein
lies the first scary illusion.

Many laypeople assume that since humans must use computer


code to command machines, machines are limited in their per-
formance by virtue of this precise communication structure. In
other words, people assume that machines can’t understand any-
thing not delivered to them in their unique machine language.
Nor can any machine perform any duty other than that which it
is specifically tasked. Put another way: The assumption is that
machines can’t understand us, so anything outside their limited
understanding is safely beyond their reach.

In this scenario, language is conflated with intelligence, but those


two things are not the same. By that way of thinking, machines
that understand our languages and converse fluently and flaw-
lessly appear to understand us. And by extension, that means
there is no safe place to exist, think, or talk that the machine
can’t permeate.

The unsettling and creeping awareness sets in that we are not as


unique in as many ways as we thought. After that comes the fear
of subjugation by machines that are smarter than us: the AI over-
lords of science fiction lore.

But they are not here. They are not coming. AI overlords do not
exist. However, irresponsible use of AI can wreak havoc, create
chaos, and do harm. We must be diligent in building guardrails for
it and setting standards for its ethical and responsible use.

It’s a mistake to let fear cripple our use of AI where it can do a


lot of good. There are distinct advantages and benefits to be had.
Look for those and build upon them.

CHAPTER 1 Introducing ChatGPT 23


Opening the Door for Bigger AI Products
As mentioned, ChatGPT is just one example of generative AI. It’s
also just one use of Generative Pre-trained Transformer-3
­(GPT-3) and now GPT-4, both of which are larger models made
for many different natural-language tasks than ChatGPT is.

ChatGPT is designed for conversational tasks. In some ways, it’s


a fantastic tool, but it’s also like a first bike with training wheels
in that it’s a good introduction to even more powerful uses and
forms of AI.

ChatGPT can help you do many things. It can also open the door
so you can walk confidently into a future where AI is a mainstay.

Pay attention as you use ChatGPT and you’ll find lessons and learn
skills that you can use in other AI applications. You can always
return to ChatGPT and ask it to explain other AI applications to
you. It can provide a fast education on how to work and live in a
future vastly different than today.

Categorizing types of Generative AI


Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that generates
content in any form, including text, images, audio, and synthetic
data, which is artificially generated data rather than data col-
lected from the real world. The laws of physics are an example of
synthetic data. Creating a database of the laws of physics enables
the application of rules to make another type of artificial creation
function in the real world.

Examples of other generative AI models are DALL-E, Midjourney,


and Stable Diffusion, which are also the best-known image
generators.

Many types of generative AI are available, but the following three


are the most common:

»» Generative adversarial networks (GANs): Use deep


learning in unsupervised data discovery. Example applica-
tions include generating photorealistic images and complex
but realistic image editing.

24 ChatGPT For Dummies


»» Transformer-based models: Discern context, meaning, and
patterns to predict and generate text, speech, images, and
other content. Example applications are DALL-E and
ChatGPT.
»» Variational autoencoders (VAEs): Comprised of two
different neural networks of encoders and decoders.
Example applications include security analytics, anomaly
detection, and signal processing.

Understanding ChatGPT’s
creator, OpenAI
OpenAI was started by tech and business leaders Sam Altman,
Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and Wojciech Zaremba in 2015 to
develop safe and open AI tools. Among those tools were GPT-1
and GPT-2.

In 2019 the company pivoted to a capped-profit business model,


which was described by the organization’s leaders as “a for-
profit and nonprofit hybrid.” Much of its work was focused on
AI research. In 2021, OpenAI released DALL-E, a generative AI
model built on GPT-2 that generates photorealistic images. In
2022, the company developed and trained GPT-3. In November
2022, ­ChatGPT, which is built on GPT-3, was released. GPT-4 was
released in early 2023 and currently powers OpenAI models as
well as many in the broader software application market.

Now that you know ChatGPT’s back story, where to find it, and
not to be afraid of it, you’re ready to begin a fascinating journey
as the captain to your own ChatGPT experience.

CHAPTER 1 Introducing ChatGPT 25

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