TechStuff Tidbits: ChatGPT and Natural Language Processing
TechStuff
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Just like parents, machines just don't understand. At least, not without first compiling data into 0s and 1s. So how can systems like ChatGPT seemingly understand what we want and present results? We take a look at natural language processing and how it can create the illusion of comprehension.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are ya? |
| 0:20.6 | We're gonna do a Tech Stuff tidbits episode for those of y'all who are not familiar. |
| 0:26.6 | That's in a while, I try and do a shorter, more concentrated episode on a tech topic that |
| 0:33.9 | doesn't merit a full episode. |
| 0:35.9 | Now it's not to say that this particular topic doesn't merit a full episode but it will |
| 0:40.1 | actually require a lot more in-depth discussion and I wanted to kind of give an overview just |
| 0:46.8 | to give y'all something to think about. |
| 0:49.3 | So let's get to it. |
| 0:50.8 | Right last November, the open AI organization launched Chat GPT, which if you haven't |
| 0:56.4 | used it, I recommend you go play with it. |
| 0:59.5 | Try it out. |
| 1:00.5 | You can make a little account for free and interact with this Chatbot. |
| 1:04.2 | So the GPT for Chat GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, but it is a Chatbot. |
| 1:11.8 | Now it's a Chatbot that can respond to prompts and queries with sometimes astonishing results. |
| 1:17.8 | This is the tool that has certain teachers worried that their students will be hoisting |
| 1:22.1 | all of their homework onto this Chatbot and make it write essays for them and it may |
| 1:28.1 | not always be easy to spot when that happens. |
| 1:31.4 | There are people who are actually offering tools that report to be able to detect if it |
| 1:36.7 | was generated by a Chatbot as opposed to written by a student. |
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