Deep Dive into GPT

ChatGPT is a sign of things to come.

Generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) are revolutionizing artificial intelligence.

As a type of foundation model, GPTs are trained on massive datasets using supervised learning, allowing them to understand and generate human language with unprecedented accuracy.

Unlike previous rule-based chatbots, GPTs like ChatGPT learn by absorbing patterns from billions of text examples, not by following manually coded instructions.

This enables them to:

• hold natural conversations

• answer questions intelligently

• perform a wide range of language tasks

Programming is a class of language task… and AI does it exceptionally well.

The original GPT model was introduced by OpenAI in 2018.

Built on a transformer neural network architecture, it achieved state-of-the-art performance on many NLP benchmarks.

Since then, continued research and access to more training data has led to rapid improvements, with GPT-2 in 2019, GPT-3 in 2020, and GPT-4 in 2023. Each version builds o…