At CloudG, we go to great lengths to keep our fingers on the pulse of the IT and Cloud services industry. This includes watching and learning about the latest technologies and innovations that can transform our clients’ businesses. One potential new disruptor that’s making the news is a chatbox that was released in November 2022 called ChatGPT. 

A tool developed by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research lab, ChatGPT uses information from the internet to answer questions in a conversational manner and can build on previous questions in a given thread to create a dialogue.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a “cousin” of the popular GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language prediction model—that’s the Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool that uses initial text as a prompt to produce text that continues the prompt. Its ability to generate human-like text in a variety of languages and domains allows ChatGPT to conduct natural, back-and-forth conversations with users for an extended period of time. This has the potential to revolutionize the customer service industry.

The tool can also generate high-quality content, such as that used in social media articles and posts. For businesses looking to create marketing materials and thought leadership content with limited staffs and budgets, this tool has the potential to be a game-changer.

Maybe the best part about it—and the most impactful—is that it can be customized for specific tasks and used to generate personal responses based on user input. This capability makes its potential unlimited.

A Note of Caution

While the possible benefits of ChatGPT are innumerable, there are some potential glitches, as noted by the creator. The tool, which recognizes patterns in massive amounts of text from the internet and delivers conversational dialog based on human training, is only as good as the information that feeds it. That means that the answer to the question you ask or the content you create may sound knowledgeable but be entirely wrong.

The Bottom Line

Despite its potential drawbacks, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the chatbox space. We will continue to track its successes and gauge its potential for use at CloudG.