Large-language model (LLM) text generators, also called chatbots, simulate artificial intelligence to predict the most likely responses to a question. Using a technology known as generative pre-trained transformers, they use natural language processing to give the appearance that it is engaging in a conversation with users by identifying the most likely next word in a passage of text. ChatGPT is one of many chatbots out there. Because ChatGPT's creator, Open AI, trained ChatGPT using language commonly used on the Internet, it may include misinformation in its responses, or provide biased information.
An important thing to remember about interacting with AI text generators like ChatGPT is that despite their appearances, they do not "know" anything, but only produce what they consider the most likely response to a query.
Microsoft has recently integrated technology from ChatGPT into its Edge web browser and the Bing Search Engine, while Google has introduced Bard to a limited group of users over the age of eighteen. Unlike ChatGPT, Bard and Bing Chat can reference live information on the Internet.
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