What is ChatGPT? It's becoming clearer

Two months ago, not long after ChatGPT came out, I registered to try it out. The registration process and simple usage examples were introduced in "Trying ChatGPT Early adopters".

Recently, ChatGPT has become more and more popular. Information about ChatGPT can be seen everywhere in Moments, official accounts, and Weibo. I also read a lot of articles about ChatGPT, and some questions were answered.

Active users

ChatGPT took 2 months to reach 100 million monthly active users. The previous record was TikTok which took 9 months. This 100 million users have been mentioned in many news to attract attention.

It should be noted that the monthly active users here do not refer to registered users, but may also include crawlers, tourists, etc. Even so, I think it will not be a small order of magnitude. Coupled with recent major media reports and the launch of various registration services, it is estimated that it will not be much different.

Regarding users, Dahui’s article has a detailed description:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iBmJEa4AzZKSO4nfKtCZDQ

and search engines Comparison

The way ChatGPT is used is to face a text box and interact with questions; the search engine is also a text box and is searched by entering keywords. They look similar, but they are actually quite different.

There are several important differences:

• ChatGPT is expensive because it is trained once, so ChatGPT is not real-time, and search engines are very timely;
• ChatGPT is based on semantic analysis, and the search engine is based on keyword indexing;
• ChatGPT will give an optimal solution. The results of the search engine are multiple pieces of content that match the keywords. We need to process the results ourselves. Analyze, identify, then compare, merge, and re-understand, and finally get an answer;
• ChatGPT can ask questions based on context to let him know our real needs, and the results will be continuously optimized, and search engines can only adjust Keywords, get new results;
• ChatGPT is just a result, the search engine will have a source link.

Both ChatGPT and search engines are tools to assist us. The two are not antagonistic, but each has its own usage scenarios.

For example: If I want to check the weather, check the calendar, the latest industry news, etc., I will definitely use a search engine; if I want to write a very special regular expression or Sql, I will use ChatGPT, because I I can write my scenario clearly with a long description, and ChatGPT can understand it and give me a decent answer, even an out-of-the-box answer.

Can it replace programmers?

I remember that when low-code was relatively popular, there was a topic about whether low-code platforms would compete with programmers for jobs. A few years ago, when we recommended our products to customers, some customers with R&D capabilities would be quite resistant.

Now that ChatGPT is popular, everyone is starting to discuss whether programmers will be replaced?

I also mentioned above that, like search engines, ChatGPT is just a tool. Since it is a tool, it will be used by people to improve people's creativity and productivity and serve us.

Give two examples:

• After agricultural mechanization, there will be fewer people working in the fields with hoes, but there will be a need for people to operate the machines;
• After low code becomes popular, fewer programmers will be needed to implement a project, but more configuration and construction personnel will be needed. Compared with programmers, the cost of these personnel is lower;

ChatGPT is the same. No matter how it develops, as long as it is used well, the efficiency will increase hundreds or thousands of times, and many new professions and positions will be created.

The daily work of programmers is to express people's demands through programming languages ​​​​and pass them to the computer. The computer calculates the results, and ChatGPT can analyze the semantics, which makes it easy for the computer to understand the process. , which is why Wang Jianshuo said that China will have 500 million new programmers in the next ten years, because with the help of tools, more people can interact with computers.

What should we do?

When a new technology comes out, there are three types of people:

• Find the gap, win the opportunity, and make a lot of money;
  
• All kinds of worries are unfounded;
  
• Make good use of technology to improve efficiency.
  

ChatGPT Because it is inconvenient to register in China, there are people who provide paid services to help with registration. It is said that they can earn hundreds of thousands a month. There are also people who are still wondering whether they will be replaced. For me, I regard ChatGPT as an efficiency tool and just use it well.

Summary

ChatGPT is a start and may bring revolutionary changes. Just like the steam engine triggered the industrial revolution and changed human production methods, the birth of the browser gave birth to the development of the Internet; after Steve Jobs released the iPhone, he announced the advent of the mobile Internet.

But for now, we can do what we can, such as integrating ChatGPT into the WeChat group and trying to use New Bing released by Microsoft.

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