We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. — Vernor Vinge
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a chatbot made using an AI technology called GPT-3.
It’s basically a highly capable chatbot that gives a user the ability to give a trained AI a wide range of worded prompts (These can be anything from general questions to requests for it to build you a well polished resume).
Where we could spend hours researching, ChatGPT can produce a well-written alternative in seconds.
It launched a week ago and already has over 1 million users.
Time it took to reach 1 million users:
- Netflix — 3.5 years
- Twitter- 2 years
- Facebook — 10 months
- Spotify — 5 months
- Instagram — 3 months
- ChatGPT — 5 days
ChatGPT could easily be one of the most disruptive technologies in our lifetime.
The current way of finding information is by searching on Google. We can spend tons of time trying to figure out if an answer is correct, based on various opinions and sources. With ChatGPT, you input a request and it gives you a human-readable answer right away.
For example, let’s input “Write a cover letter for a job application”
ChatGPT’s response:
This is going to easily become a competitor to Google. Programmers are already using it as a way to write and optimize code. There are countless mindblowing examples of songs being composed, poems and college essays being written, the list goes on and on.
Try it for yourself here — it won’t be free for much longer.
