Sino-Singapore Jingwei, January 31 (Chang Tao) Recently, ChatGPT, an AI chat robot called by netizens as "able to write papers, code, and create novels", has become popular again.
ChatGPT is an AI language model launched in November 2022 by the artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI. Create stories, write news, answer objective questions, chat, and even write codes, and the quality of the generated content is so high that many experiencers call it "high energy throughout the process".
ChatGPT is red again
In fact, both ChatGPT and the currently popular AI painting belong to the field of AIGC (using artificial intelligence to automatically generate content), which is also one of the tracks with high capital attention at present.
This time ChatGPT became popular again, which is also related to being favored by capital.
On January 24, Microsoft Corporation announced that it will make a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI to accelerate its technological breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence.
Previously, Microsoft invested in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, and in 2019 Microsoft invested $1 billion in it.
However, as the user base grows, ChatGPT has also sparked controversies such as copyright and academic ethics.
According to reports, because ChatGPT is too powerful, a French university announced that it will ban the use of ChatGPT.
In addition, many American middle schools and universities have successively announced the ban on ChatGPT in their schools, and reduced homework to prevent students from using their home networks to access ChatGPT to cheat.
Some areas even set up cards for managed educational equipment or the Internet to restrict access to ChatGPT.
It can be said that the ethical and legal issues brought about by ChatGPT are triggering extensive discussions and thinking from all walks of life.
Or first apply in the search scene
In fact, chatbots are not new. The most common intelligent customer service and intelligent assistants are chatbots.
In addition, in the past, many technology companies have also launched many specialized chatbots.
For example, the QQ chat robot Xiao Q launched by Tencent in 1992, and Microsoft Xiaobing, which users are more familiar with, and so on.
Compared with ChatGPT, although these chatbots have more or less intelligent components, they are not powerful, and users often experience problems such as answering questions that are not asked, and speech confusion.
ChatGPT can explain concepts, convey facts, and even generate new ideas in a way that people can understand because it has received a large amount of data training.
However, ChatGPT is not without limitations. Since it does not have the ability to automatically update, the collected information is as of 2021, so the information it produces has certain limitations, and sometimes there are low-level errors.
But this does not affect ChatGPT to become the most powerful AI chat robot at present, and it has caused repercussions in the Chinese market.
On January 30, it was reported that Baidu is developing a chat robot service similar to ChatGPT, which will be launched in March.
In this regard, Baidu has not yet responded.
However, according to Sino-Singapore Jingwei's information from people familiar with the matter, Baidu's service will be based on traditional search services and combined with search.
At the end of December 2022, Baidu founder Robin Li said in an internal live broadcast for all employees that AIGC and ChatGPT are new opportunities created after the development of AI technology to a certain extent.
"Technology can achieve this step, but what kind of product it will become and what kind of needs the product can meet, there are still many uncertainties in this chain. This is difficult, but Baidu must do it."
In fact, as a content generation tool, ChatGPT is naturally suitable for combining with search scenarios.
Microsoft CEO Nadella said in January that he plans to integrate artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT into Bing search engine, Office family bucket, Azure cloud service, Teams chat program and other products.
It was previously reported that Microsoft plans to launch a Bing search version using ChatGPT by the end of March 2023 to better counter Google search.
Shen Yang, a professor at Tsinghua University, told Sino-Singapore Jingwei that ChatGPT is not a search engine, but it can definitely replace a search engine when done well.
Compared with search engines, ChatGPT can go deep into the semantic level, which is a higher dimension, and the use area will expand.
"But at this stage, we can only integrate the ChatGPT model into the search and enhance the latter. If there is a company in China that wants to do this, it should be close to ChatGPT in terms of experience and effect. We also had a similar platform before, but intelligent The level is relatively low, if it is still at that level, don’t go online easily.” Shen Yang said.
Is it a good business?
ChatGPT can be said to be a money-burning game.
According to public reports, OpenAI currently spends "single-digit cents" in computing costs per user interaction with ChatGPT, and as the scale of use becomes larger, these computing costs may soar to millions of dollars.
On the other hand, OpenAI, behind ChatGPT, is still in the red.
Li Di, CEO of Xiaobing Company, once revealed in an interview with the media that ChatGPT is expensive because it pursues the ultimate interactive effect and uses the most complicated method to achieve it.
Of course, everyone is now looking for various equivalent replacement methods, and the cost will gradually decrease, so so far it is more of a breakthrough in research, a breakthrough in the laboratory.
Nevertheless, many institutions are still optimistic about the "money" scene of ChatGPT and its AIGC.
CITIC Construction Investment believes that the natural language model represented by ChatGPT will be deeply integrated into content generation, search engine enhancement, programming assistance, intelligent customer service and other fields, and become an important auxiliary tool for people's daily life production.
At the same time, the rapid commercial landing of ChatGPT will also drive the development of the AI chip industry chain and the data industry chain.
Kaiyuan Securities pointed out that from the perspective of Microsoft’s investment and application of ChatGPT, the highly anthropomorphic dialogue question-and-answer mode has a better interactive experience and will further strengthen the application of NLP technology, such as human-computer interaction, intelligent customer service, machine translation, intelligent writing Wait.
Looking forward to the future, with the entry of giants such as Microsoft and the iterative development of technology, ChatGPT, combined with technologies such as search and knowledge graphs, is expected to further expand AI application scenarios and accelerate the commercialization of AI.
The domestic policy environment continues to be optimized, and downstream demand is strong, which is expected to promote the accelerated implementation of AI technology in the fields of finance, government, and medical care.
In terms of the market, according to statistics from Wind, there are a total of 60 listed companies in the two cities that belong to the concept of AIGC.
A number of listed companies recently replied to investors that they have made arrangements in the fields of AIGC and ChatGPT, and will continue to increase investment.
Shen Yang said that, on the whole, AI humanization has three directions, expert mode, companion mode, and idol mode. "It can be said that there are as many roles as humans, and as many roles as AI can have. From this point of view, the market will be profitable in the future." The patterns are very rich." Shen Yang said.
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