This Article First Appeared In Indian Express On Feb 4, 2023
Over the past few months, a chatty bot has become a sensation. A chatty what, you say? A chatbot, or a bot into which you can type questions and receive written answers, rather aptly called ChatGPT, is the rage. As ABC News tells us, it is a generative AI or algorithm that can be used to make content. It generates text responses to text prompts like a very advanced chatbot. Released by OpenAI, it can communicate in plain English and users can see the bot typing the answers to their questions in real-time.
Ethan Mollick writes in the Harvard Business Review that what sets ChatGPT apart is that it’s open to the general public, can communicate in plain English (or whatever other language you choose), and can generate content very quickly. ChatGPT and other similar AI tools enable the human-machine hybrid work mode that is slowly becoming popular.