Technology is reaching great heights and every day sees a new mind-boggling innovation, which comes to make humans’ life easier than before. And ChatGPT is one of such innovations. You guys must be thinking that what is ChatGPT? So, let’s dive into it.
ChatGPT(Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is a language model and chatbot (basically an AI-powered software) developed by OpenAI. Since its launch on 30th November 2022, it is renowned for its exciting features such as debugging computer programs, writing articles, blog posts and essays, answering questions pertaining to any field, composing music, writing lyrics, poetry and stories and many more. To see it do wonder, you just have to ask it as it operates in a human-like conversational way.
ChatGPT belongs to the GPT-3.5 series and unlike other chatbots, it comes with a deep analysis feature, which makes it stand alone in the competition. ChatGPT is just another updated version of its previous model ‘InstructGPT’.
HOW TO USE CHATGPT?
ChatGPT is very easy to use. You just need a mobile phone or laptop with a browser and good internet connectivity. Here are the following steps on how to use ChatGPT?
Step 1: Open the browser on your device and visit chat.openai.com
Step 2: On the website’s interface, there will be two options login or signup. Click login if you’ve already registered or signup if you haven’t.
Step 3: by clicking on the signup button, you’ll be asked to enter your full name and email id or phone number, which belongs to you.
Step 4: On the given email id or phone number, A code will be sent. To proceed further you need to provide that code.
Step 5: After providing the code and completion of verification, you will be all set to witness a new world of information.
PROS AND CONS OF USING CHATGPT.
Every technology consists in benefits as well as limitations of its own and ChatGPT with its remarkable features can contribute to both. So, what are the Pros and Cons of using ChatGPT?
PROS
From answering complex questions to having a casual chat with its users, ChatGPT is capable of doing anything because it has been filled with tons of data and information.
With its remarkable features, ChatGPT can do long-hours work in minutes. Creating a computer program could be a lengthy task, but with ChatGPT it can be done in no time. For Students, writing essays is no longer remained an issue as ChatGPT can write them effectively by fetching every single detail on the topic.
We are all aware of the fact that how valuable content could be these days and it becomes more complicated when it comes to creating it for the targeted audience, but for ChatGPT creating content and writing blog posts and articles is a piece of cake.
Writing poetry or lyrics might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but ChatGPT makes it possible and easier for anyone interested. ChatGPT can also compose music in the same manner humans do.
Instead of all, one key feature of ChatGPT is that it remembers the previous questions asked by its users so that the conversational connection made between both its users and chatGPT seem more like human.
CONS
With so many brilliant features, ChatGPT is a saviour for sure and also able to get better with time, but it should also be deemed that ChatGPT is still under development and continues to learn.
As mentioned earlier that ChatGPT is a language model and with language models, it is a common problem of sometimes generating illogical or senseless sentences or answers.
OpenAI on its official website openAI.com also claims that ChatGPT sometimes gives answers, which might seem true even when they aren’t. So, while using ChatGPT one must be aware of using information, answers, and content provided by it. ChatGPT’s quick responses and answers on any topic could be addictive for its users as it cuts down the time gap spent on the actual research of the topic.
Information provided by ChatGPT is really fast and with a sufficient amount of trust in it, its users use it with having no doubt about it, which could play a major role in hampering human critical thinking, though some believe that the swathe of knowledge available on ChatGPT could help individuals improve their critical thinking and communication skills.
One of the major drawbacks of using ChatGPT is its usage by students, who can use ChatGPT’s immense knowledge to get their homework done. ChatGPT’s quick answers could hamper students’ solving of concepts on their own and lead to improper growth.
With the launch of ChatGPT, The most worried are educational institutions as they think that misusing ChatGPT’s features by the students could be dangerous.
IS CHATGPT FREE?
ChatGPT’s phenomenal features must have left you wondering if is ChatGPT free or paid. The answer to the question is ChatGT is free to use and charges no money for its services. Although, there is also a paid version named ChatGPT PLUS, which can be subscribed to by users, who want to use premium services, but need to pay USD 20 per month. To subscribe to ChatGPT PLUS, one needs to drop one’s email id on the interface so that one will be notified when the premium services are made available to them.
GOOGLE BARD VS CHATGPT. WHICH IS BETTER?
With the launch of ChatGPT, Many tech companies have also launched their AI services and one of them is called ‘GOOGLE BARD’ developed by Google. The question is in the battle of Google Bard vs ChatGPT which is better and which should top the priority list?
Well, ChatGPT and Google Bard work similarly. ChatGPT has been filled with information through books, articles and blogs. On the other hand, Google bard uses the internet system to solve queries about which Google and Alphabet CEO ‘Sundar Pichai’ believes that using interest to solve complex queries results in fresh and reliable answers.
The information and answers, which google bard provides are available on the internet and up to date while OpenAI claims that ChatGPT has little information about events that happened after 2021. Although both AI software are still in the developing phase, ChatGT has started gaining the trust of its users as well as some bad reviews while Google bard is yet to be made available to its users.