What is ChatGPT? How has it changed the contours of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Evaluate the threats and opportunities posed by it.

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5. What is ChatGPT? How has it changed the contours of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Evaluate the threats and opportunities posed by it. (250 words)

Difficulty level: Moderate

Reference: The Hindu

Why the question:

ChatGPT is a chatbot launched by OpenAI. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

Key Demand of the question:

To write about ChatGPT, changes introduced by it and opportunities and threats posed by it.

Directive word: 

Evaluate – When you are asked to evaluate, you have to pass a sound judgement about the truth of the given statement in the question or the topic based on evidence.  You must appraise the worth of the statement in question. There is scope for forming an opinion here.

Structure of the answer:

Introduction: 

Begin by defining ChatGPT.

Body:

First, write about the changes introduced by ChatGPT as chatbot which has brought in new aspects to conversational AI.

Next, write about the advantages it brings in various domains such as – education, journalism, search engines, art etc.

Next, write about the limitations of ChatGPT and adverse effect it can cause in the existing industry.

Conclusion:

Conclude by writing a way forward.