What Is ChatGPT? A Plain-English Explanation for Non-Tech People
You’ve heard about ChatGPT everywhere — at work, on the news, from your kids. Maybe you’ve tried it and gotten something useful back. Maybe you’ve tried it and gotten nonsense. Either way, you probably still have a nagging question: what actually is this thing? Here’s the honest answer, no computer science degree required. It’s a Text Prediction Machine (a Very Good One) At its core, ChatGPT is a language model. That sounds fancy, but it just means: a system trained to predict what word (or phrase) should come next, given everything that came before it. ...