ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
For those new to generative AI tools, ChatGPT is an excellent place to start—and this Quick Start Guide is excellent. A few of the things I like best about this guide include the flowchart on "When is it safe to use ChatGPT?" (p. 6) and the table on various ways ChatGPT can support teaching and student learning (p. 9).
ChatGPT is a language model that allows people to interact with a computer in a more natural and conversational way. GPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” and is the name given to a family of natural language models developed by open Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is also known as a form of generative AI because of its ability to produce original results.
ChatGPT uses natural language processing to learn from Internet data, providing users with artificial intelligence-based written answers to questions or prompts.
These models are trained on large text datasets to learn to predict the next word in a sentence and, from that, generate coherent and compelling human-like output in response to a question or statement. In the case of ChatGPT, 570gb of data representing 300 billion words have been supplied to the system and it has around 175 billion parameters.