ChatGPTIntro

Hello! So, what I'm going to do in this video alongside you is explore using ChatGPT, which I'm sure many of you have heard of.

So the first question is: Why is it called ChatGPT? Well, the GPT part stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and I guarantee you that it wasn't some big branding exercise to say what would be the most easy thing for people to remember. It really is just a description of the underlying technology of the AI technology it's based on, and it just kind of stuck. The company that makes it, OpenAI, I think just stuck with it.

Now, the other thing I want to point out is there's a difference between the applications using the AI and then the AI models, the generative AI models themselves. ChatGPT is an application, and you can see in my account I can pick different models to use. So I could use GPT-3.5, which is the version if someone were to just start using ChatGPT for free, they'll get access to. That's the version that was first launched, although I think they've improved on it since then.

Then there is the more advanced version, which is based off of the GPT-4 model, which is much more complex, uses a lot more computation, and you have to pay money in order to get access to that. But we'll take a look at that in a second.

But let me just go with essentially the free version, and the chat part's a little bit more obvious. You can chat with it. For example, I could say, "What does GPT stand for?" So, we could do the types of things that you might have before done with, say, a Google or a Bing search.

So it says, "GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It's a type of artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI, specifically designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation, translation, question answering, and more."

Okay, and I would guess that if you did a web search, you could probably find some text like that. Well, that might be kind of interesting, but what if we don't really understand what it's talking about? What do they mean by natural language processing or language generation?

And say, "Can you explain it like you would to a 5-year-old?" Of course! Imagine GPT like a super smart robot that loves to talk and write. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and it tells us again, but we can just call it GPT for short.

Now, this robot has learned a lot about how people talk and write by reading tons and tons of books, articles, and conversations. It's kind of like when you learn new words and sentences by listening to your parents, teachers, and friends. Once it's learned all this stuff, you can ask it questions or tell it to write something, and it'll use all that learning to come up with answers or write stories.

It's like having a really clever friend who knows a lot about words and language. So, that's pretty cool! Maybe someone, if you did a web search, would have written a simpler explanation; maybe they wouldn't. And now, it was just in a matter of split second able to make something more at our level.

"Can you write that in Gen Z slang?" So, this AI buddy has basically absorbed mad knowledge by scrolling through endless texts, articles, and convos, kind of like how you pick up slang and memes from your feed.

Once it's soaked up all that juice, you can hit it up with questions or ask it to drop some bars, and it'll spit out answers or write stories like a pro. It's like having that one friend who's always on point with the words and lingo.

"That's interesting! Can you write a poem in the style of Dr. Seuss explaining GPT technology?" Let's see what it does here.

"Let me scroll up a little bit."

In the world of words where stories roam,
There's a tech that's truly in its own zone.
It's called GPT, a linguistic king,
With a knack for language, it can surely sing.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer, you see,
Is what GPT stands for, as clever as can be.
So I could go on and on. Now, we could try these same things with GPT-4, and in future videos, I'll go into much more depth of the real power of something like GPT-4.

But we will, in general, get better answers here. Now, what's cool about this GPT-4 access is it also has DALL·E access, which is integrating with ChatGPT, the ability to generate images.

So, for example, I could say, "Can you create an image of a horse made out of bananas?" Let's see what it generates! As you can tell, I don't plan a lot for this stuff.

Oh look at that! That's beautiful! So, I sped up how long it took, but it really didn't take that long. It took about, I would guess, about 5 to 10 seconds for it to come out, but that's a nice-looking horse made out of bananas.

It says, "Here's the image of a horse made entirely out of bananas. I hope you find this creative interpretation to your liking."

Actually, can we make this in the style of Van Gogh?

Let's see what it does! Now look at that! That's a nice-looking banana horse! I would think I would put that up on my wall. Maybe I don't think my wife would let me, but that's pretty darn impressive.

And I'm just really scratching the surface here, but this is for you to get a sense of what these generative AI tools are capable of, and they are really getting better every day.