If you’re a fan of artificial intelligence (AI) and follow the ChatGPT phenomenon closely, get ready to see how the technology behind it works. OpenAI Viral Chatbot access new services and applications. It just landed on Bing at the beginning of February, doing so on Snapchat today.

The American social network known for its short-lived content mechanics has announced My AI. It is a customizable chatbot that will be gradually made available to paid users of the platform, namely Snapchat+ subscribers.

A more personal (and customizable) chatbot

One of the questions you may be asking yourself is whether there will be differences between what ChatGPT and Bing currently offer us. In response, according to Snap, AI powered chatbot In the interface, it will be presented as a traditional chat, like that used to chat with people.

The idea of ​​the company is that users can chat with it naturally and even give it a name and customize the background of the window to their liking. For example, something like some sort of virtual friend that promises to be useful for “suggesting birthday ideas.”

They also point out that it will be possible to talk to My AI or the name we have chosen from the company to plan the weekend activities. find recipes, among other things. Of course, they warn that, like other solutions in this style, it can “hallucinate” and provide “misleading information.”

It’s interesting to see that one of the skills Snap promotes is asking him for advice, but in the press release they state: “Don’t rely on him for advice.” This is an indication that technology, in general, still has a long way to go to be reliable.

If we’re going to focus on what’s behind the chatbot, official information tells us it was “driven by it”.Latest version of OpenAI’s GPT technology”. When we talk about GPT, we mean Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

So far, the latest version of this model is GPT-3.5, which is the heart of ChatGPT. But Microsoft says Bing uses a “next-gen” model and Snap tells us “the latest version”. What do they have in common? They don’t say exactly which version they are implementing.

It’s possible we’re dealing with GPT-3.5 or a future GPT-4, but we’re not sure. What is clear is that the adoption of the OpenAI API is increasing, with its latest models opening the door to third-party applications. For example, the outstanding GPT-3, released in 2020, is used by thousands of developers worldwide.

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