Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, recently shared his experience while using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The Ethereum founder was impressed with the ChatGPT’s ability to help him solve real world problems and reduce the barrier to entry between amateurs and professionals.
Buterin asked the AI chatbot for help writing a script that would compute the travel time between two given GPS coordinates, and ChatGPT responded by providing him examples of the desired script and datasets. When he inquired for additional resources, the chatbot compiled and shared related links. For the query regarding optimizing transit time, Buterin was amazed to find a scatter plot with time-distance pairs provided by ChatGPT. He was also impressed with the ChatGPT’s understanding of online libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs).
ChatGPT has become immensely popular due to its user-friendly interface and ability to deliver expertise for multiple skills such as programming and research. It has gained many admirers, such as Vitalik Buterin, thanks to its powerful AI and effectiveness in reducing the learning curve and time required to understand a particular field.
OpenAI is a research laboratory born out of the desire to utilize advanced technologies such as deep learning and reinforcement learning for socially beneficial objectives. The lab was founded by Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever, and it is backed by prominent investors such as Microsoft, Facebook and its parent company, Alphabet. It has achieved success in several domains such as language, computer vision and robotics.
Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer whose work focuses on cryptocurrency, blockchain, decentralization and smart contracts. Buterin is best known as the co-founder of Ethereum, a decentralized platform for running applications. He was also the recipient of the Thiel Fellowship for his ideas and contributions to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. He has become an influential figure in the blockchain community, speaking regularly about its potential applications.
