A tool called ChatGPT was released on the internet recently. It created quite a stir especially among the artificial intelligence (AI) crowd because this tool ‘knew’ every topic under the sun; it could answer questions and carry on a conversation.
- ChatGPT is called a Language Model, rather than a chat bot. A language model is a software that prints out a sequence of words as output that are related to some words given as input with appropriate semantic relation.
- It can perform tasks like answering questions and carrying on a conversation with humans.
- It is developed by OpenAI, which is a research institute and company that focuses on developing artificial intelligence technology in a responsible and safe way.
- It can write a program or even a simple software application.
- It can also do creative tasks such as writing a story.
- It can explain scientific concepts and answer any question that needs factual answers.
- It is also a neural network which is a large network of computers that can fine tune its output of words based on the feedback given to it during stages of training. This training process and the technology together are called Reinforcement Learning.
- It can accurately “understand” the context of a sentence or a paragraph. This “comprehension” can be used for multiple purposes like answering a question, summarising a paragraph or an article, translating documents.
Accuracy of ChatGPT:
- The accuracy of ChatGPT or any language model can be measured using standard techniques like “Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation” or the ROUGE metric which compares ChatGPT’s output of content against a standard expected content and measures the overlap as success percentage.
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
- Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions.
- The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind such as learning and problem-solving.
- The ideal characteristic of artificial intelligence is its ability to rationalise and take actions that have the best chance of achieving a specific goal.
- Machine Learning: A subset of artificial intelligence is machine learning (ML), which refers to the concept that computer programs can automatically learn from and adapt to new data without being assisted by humans.
India's Initiatives for Developing AI:
- NITI Aayog has come with the ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence’ Discussion Paper that focuses on establishing ICTAI in the country through private sector collaboration.
- NITI Aayog, Intel, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) are collaborating to set up a Model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) towards developing and deploying AI-led application-based research projects.
- NITI Aayog is to set up India’s first AI-specific cloud computing infrastructure called AIRAWAT. AIRAWAT will also provide an indigenous alternative to present AI cloud platform leaders such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.