New chatbot that answers complex questions and answers is getting buzz

There is a new chatbot in town and it is gaining a lot of buzz on Twitter because of its ability to answer some pretty complex questions and generate creative responses, as well as some notable blips that show the continued limitations of artificial intelligence technology.

ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, made its free public debut last week. Users who make an account with OpenAI can engage with the bot by asking it to solve problems, write code and produce other creative output. The chatbot returns responses within a few seconds, including when asked to describe itself for a MarketWatch audience.

OpenAI, the company that developed the tool and made it available for research previews, said in a blog post that the company trained an initial model and fine-tuned it with help from human AI trainers. OpenAI said ChatGPT was built to refuse inappropriate requests, though it acknowledged that some might slip through.

Chatbots are prime candidates to generate interest on social media because people like to see the funny, impressive and just plain wrong things that machines spit back. ChatGPT seems to be winning some praise for its actual abilities as well. Aaron Levie, CEO of Box Inc. The chatbot was put in some lofty company by BOX, amid a series of tweets highlighting the service's potential.

Others thought that the bot could become a thorn in the side of professors who now have to ward off a new type of cheating threat.

The bot was able to give a pretty impressive creative response to an application essay for the University of Chicago, which is known for having outside-the- box questions.

Twitter users were quick to take advantage of the bot's whimsical potential. ChatGPT can rewrite popular songs to be about a life event you describe, turn articles into limericks, and mimic biblical language in describing the absurd.

One business consultant wrote that he was able to combine the chatbot with a program that would allow people to send more professional communication.

There are a few things to learn from ChatGPT. Some Twitter users highlighted how the bot didn't recognize that birds aren't mammals.

Others said that the bot came up short on some basic logic questions that humans often mess up as well, such as how long it would take for a patch of lily pads that doubles in size daily to cover half a lake, if it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the whole lake.

Some people looked at backdoors to the company's safeguards around harmful content. The OpenAI website says that ChatGPN is trained to reject straight requests to share information about bullying, but some people said they were able to get around that, including by asking the bot to have realistic dialogue with people talking about bullying. Others said they were able to reveal gender and racial bias in the bot's models.

OpenAI is an AI research and development company that aims to bring benefits to humanity. It is governed by the OpenAI foundation and counts Microsoft Corp. MSFT among its investors.