Advancements in generative AI

Understanding ChatGPT

James Chapman

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

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What's to come in generative AI?
What challenges need to be overcome?

Performance improvements

More human-like content
Handle more complexity
Greater reliability

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What's driving the improvements?

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Learns from a huge text dataset
Algorithms detect patterns in text
Fine-tune the model by rating responses

The three key components of a large language model: the training data, the algorithms to detect pattern in the training data, and a fine-tuning process.

What's driving the improvements?

Amount of training data will increase

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What's driving the improvements?

Amount of training data will increase
Usage data will help in fine-tuning

Usage data feeding into the fine-tuning of the model.

Building balanced datasets

Challenge: Ensuring data is high quality and balanced

Quantity of data makes detecting bias prior to training difficult

Goal: Develop more robust bias mitigation procedures

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Opportunities for misuse

Misrepresenting AI-generated content
Creating malicious content (e.g., spam)

Intervention by lawmakers:

Regulations could help or hinder AI advancement

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From generalized to specialized

ChatGPT is a generalizable model
Generative AI models will become more specialized
Example: a model specifically designed to write long and complex code

An example of using ChatGPT to generate code to scrape a table from a website.

Other types of generative AI

The three key components of a large language model: the training data, the algorithms to detect pattern in the training data, and a fine-tuning process.

¹ DALL-E 3

AI for everyone!

Accessibility is key to ChatGPT's success
Democratization of AI tools
- Everyone should benefit from the technology

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Understanding ChatGPT