Chat and other GPTs (ChatGPT and its predecessors)

Johannes Stiehler
Technology
#ChatGPT
#LargeLanguageModels

Dall-E destroys the artists, ChatGPT the writers. Thanks to Large Language Models, children will soon no longer do their homework (by themselves), students will delegate their exams to software, lawyers could be replaced by bots, and in general we are once again heading for the downfall of mankind.

Or paradise, because no one will have to do boring work anymore, information will be much easier to find, and ChatGPT will patiently and happily explain every complex matter using language that five-year-olds can understand.

So which scenario is true??

In our current video, we refrain from wildly hammering ChatGPT with prompts and drawing conclusions from that, but rather take a look at the background and technical features. From this, it can be deduced quite well what ChatGPT and other LLMs can / will be able to do and which problems inevitably arise from the underlying approaches.

Full English Version: ChatGPT - it's not that new

Johannes Stiehler
Johannes Stiehler
CO-Founder NEOMO GmbH
Johannes has spent his entire professional career working on software solutions that process, enrich and surface textual information.

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