The biggest technology news of the year so far has been the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a chatbot-style AI that is capable of generating human-like conversations, or even complete exam essay answers, poetry and machine code in a very clever and knowledgeable fashion. This article will discuss how ChatGPT works, how it can be used in practice and its potential to help query databases.
ChatGPT has been designed with the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) family of language models as its foundation. It works through logging in with an OpenAI account, so it can learn words and phrases to generate more accurate conversations. People are amazed at the level of accuracy that ChatGPT has achieved when having conversations, however it really just utilizes pre-existing material on the internet and synthesises this information into an understandable response. This is not to take away from its impressive effects, but it is important to note. It is worth considering that the AI could be slightly misguided at times, such as when a reporter asked ChatGPT for a suitable paragraph for a 12-year-old, the AI replied with a rambling and strange description of a marital breakdown.
As a database professional, the author of the article has considered the potential use of ChatGPT to interact with databases. To test the functionality, SQL commands were asked for and ChatGTP delivered an impressively long string of code. Similarly, MongoDB commands and code have been generated and have exceeded expectations. This level of sophistication indicate potential for conversation-style inquiry of databases and ChatGPT could be a leading example to reach this dream.
OpenAI and its teams of engineers and scientists, who have worked on the development of ChatGPT, deserve a large amount of recognition and gratitude. With their innovative and impressive ideas and techniques, they have enabled us to imagine the potential possibilities of using artificial intelligence to analyze and assess data. It is exciting to consider the ways in which ChatGPT could change the way we interact, assessing and comprehending data.
