If you’re a student, professor, academic, or in the workforce, you’ve probably heard the name ChatGPT mentioned within the past month. ChatGPT is a recently released AI tool that allows you to enter in prompts, and it will produce a highly sophisticated response within the parameters that you specify, whether that be a one sentence answer or the length of a paper. ChatGPT is one of the first AI bots of its kind to gain such notable popularity so quickly. It found a majority of its attention on popular social media platforms, appealing to a younger generation of students who felt compelled to utilize the bot to write their papers and homework for them. This has led to a huge debate between academics as to what the best practices could be to prevent a type of plagiarism that no previous forms of software were designed to detect.
This influx of plagiarism cases has led people to put ChatGPT to the test to see how good the software truly is at writing responses to prompts. CNN Business reports that ChatGPT has passed both a law exam, from the University of Minnesota, and a Business Management exam from the Ivy League Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. ChatGPT reportedly scored a C+ in law, and a B- or B level grade in Business Management. ChatGPT has continued to make headway to the point where it is now being utilized in different types of jobs. One of the most unexpected jobs that benefited from the bot are real estate agents. CNN reports that real estate agents can’t imagine going back to writing their own house descriptions. Evidently, what used to take agents an hour to complete, takes only a few minutes for ChatGPT.
If the bot is sophisticated enough to pass an Ivy League exam, you may not be surprised to hear that a speech written by ChatGPT was recently presented before the United States Congress. WCVB5 reports that Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Representative, recently delivered a speech before Congress that was supposedly written by him. His speech argued in favor of the collaboration between the United States and Israel to open an artificial intelligence center. Much to the surprise of the rest of Congress, Auchincloss eventually revealed that the speech was written, at least in part, by the AI bot, ChatGPT. When questioned about his decision, WCVB5 captured Auchincloss’ following statement; “There were probably about a dozen of my colleagues on the floor. I bet none of them knew it was written by a computer”. Auchincloss chose to deliver an AI written speech for the purpose of demonstrating how far AI has evolved, and how it could become an integral part of the future.
While the uses of the new bot are certainly noteworthy, the pure economic success that ChatGPT is bringing in cannot be ignored. According to Reuters, OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT, is co-founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman who were given 1 billion dollars in funding from Microsoft. However, it has proven to be more than a worthwhile investment. Reuters further reports that a recent value estimation approximated that OpenAI was currently worth 20 billion dollars in a secondary share sale. Additionally, the report also stated, “Three sources briefed on OpenAI's recent pitch to investors said the organization expects $200 million in revenue next year and $1 billion by 2024”. At the rate ChatGPT is progressing, it could end up rivaling even the most established of search engines, replace jobs across America, and become an integral step in a new technological revolution.
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