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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?
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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

by Mike Loukides
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
20 pages
33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

ChatGPT is not your run-of-the-mill automated chat server. It's much more. But if you want to understand the possibilities that ChatGPT (and similar models) offers your organization, it's important to move past the hype. Large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 represent one of the biggest technological leaps we've seen in our lifetime. In this concise report, Mike Loukides zeros in on the essential things you should understand to take advantage of ChatGPT including:



  • What it is
  • What it can do
  • How it works
  • What can be built on it (or like it)
  • What applications it has
  • What it costs
  • What its risks and limitations are
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781098152604