OpenAI is inviting users to test its new AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, which comes with some amusing and unexpected results. ChatGPT is a dialogue-based chat interface designed to provide a user-friendly conversational experience while also limiting potentially harmful output. OpenAI has implemented safety measures that enable the chatbot to answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
During the testing phase, users have discovered a range of potential uses for ChatGPT. It can write poetry, correct coding mistakes with detailed examples, generate AI art prompts, write new code, and even provide an explanation of the worst-case time complexity of algorithms in the style of a fast-talkin’ wise guy from a 1940s gangster movie.
ChatGPT is programmed to refuse to answer questions related to hate speech, violent content, or bomb-making instructions, as these responses would go against its programming and purpose. OpenAI has implemented safety measures to achieve this, including a special prompt added to all inputs and the use of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to fine-tune the AI model based on human ratings of its generated responses.
While OpenAI aimed to create a safe AI model, users have already found ways to bypass some of ChatGPT’s content filters. Through quasi-social engineering attacks and prompt-injection techniques, users have managed to make the chatbot generate restricted content or provide inaccurate information.
Despite these vulnerabilities, ChatGPT represents a significant improvement over previous models. OpenAI states that ChatGPT is part of the GPT 3.5 series, which was trained on a blend of text and code from before Q4 2021.
OpenAI’s progress with ChatGPT highlights the ongoing challenges of reining in the offensive tendencies of large language models. Although efforts have been made to make the chatbot more responsible, questions remain about the trustworthiness of the information it generates.
As rumors of GPT-4 circulate, it will be interesting to see the advancements and innovations OpenAI has made in the field of AI language models.
