intelligence and chatbots. if you ve heard of chatgpt, you ll know that the computer programme released two months ago by the company 0penai provides convincingly human responses to questions using information from the internet. well, now google has come up with a rival it s called bard. our technology editor zoe kleinmanjoins me. what is it and why are these computer programmes making such waves? chatgpt has chatg pt has absolutely chatgpt has absolutely exploded since it launched a couple of months ago. we know over a million people tried out in its first few days. basically what it does is it uses the internet as a giant database and it can answer questions. it can also write speeches, songs, poems and computer code as well. there are concerns that students are using it to help them write their homework and there are also worries that it could take over lots ofjobs that are currently done by humans, but its value to the big tech companies
explain chatg pt into sentences . explain chatgpt into sentences . chat gpt is a chat generated in the language model that uses natural language processing to generate responses to user input in a conversational manner . not so conversational manner . not so conversational so far. let s try another question. are you alive? no, i m a virtual assistant created by computer programmes. i do not have consciousness or the ability to feel emotions like a human. i exist only to provide information and assist with tasks within the limitations of my programming . right, here we go. i have come to glasgow university to meetjust doctorjeff dalton. a senior lecturer in computing science to see what he makes of it. if i were to ask this on an exam thatis i were to ask this on an exam that is probably a lobbe. doctor dalton spent a lot of time running questions through chris reason. chris reason. chatgpt is very
have led many to wonder about the potential outcomes of a full scale invasion of taiwan from china. the centre for strategic and international studies think tank in washington has been mapping out some simulations. earlier their senior advisor mark cancian told me how the data was collated. we have done a lot of analysis experience to build computer programmes and tables to analyse and give combat result so we are not relying on people in the back room using their judgement. we have developed a wargame with maps and encounters, and we have done this in the unclassified spheres so we can encourage discussion in the broader community. we are also running the game 22 times, we have done 18 already. we have looked at the scenario in a wide brady of scenarios to try to capture a wide spectrum of possible futures. ,., .,
hey, welcome, welcome, welcome! lara lewington, what is the craziest thing you ve ever bought on ebay? um, slippers? dogs dog slippers! i wondered where that was going. ok, i did ask for crazy. well, look, do you remember the times when you bid on an item and you thought you were going to win the auction, and then in the dying few seconds, you were beaten by someone else? yes, they weren t real people, though, were they? no, they weren t. they were computer programmes designed to work really fast and beat you to the bid button, and i hated them. no one did that to my dog slippers, though. can t imagine why. well, look, now, this idea is being used in new ways, and omar mehtab has been looking at the phenomenon of the scalpers. with the pandemic came lockdowns, and with the majority of the population stuck at home, we had nothing really to do.buy buy. really to do.but buy. and so online spending went up. we bought clothes, hobby kits,