T he release of OpenAI's ChatGPT has generated a flood of commentary, in the media and scientific circles, about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence.
At its core ChatGPT is a powerful version of the large language model known as GPT. GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer; a type of machine learning model that extracts patterns from a vast body of training data (much of it scraped from the Internet) to generate new data composites, (such as chunks of text) using the same patterns.
CEOs of AI companies, politicians and prominent AI researchers are now publicly sounding alarms