Questions and answers about ChatGPT and large language models
There’s been a lot of media coverage of ChatGPT and language models lately, and
I feel like not everything is being said quite right. That’s why I have
prepared some questions and answers that hopefully help clarify what they are
talking about.
Questions:
- What is a (large) language model?
- What is ChatGPT?
- Are GPT-3.5 and ChatGPT the best things out there?
- Are there any available alternatives, ideally open source?
- How can ChatGPT speak multiple languages? Does it use machine translation?
- Where does the knowledge ChatGPT has come from? Does he use a search engine?
- What to do about pupils and students using it in schools?
- Language models have opponents who consider them dangerous technology. What’s the danger?
What is a (large)