What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

How ChatGPT Works: A Non-Technical Primer - MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning Technologies

Discover how ChatGPT works with this video guide. Dive deep into its evolution, mechanisms, and potential with insights from Rama Ramakrishnan of MIT Sloan.

ChatGPT is bullshit

Ethics and Information Technology - Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of...

Inside ChatGPT: How AI chatbots work

Large language models like ChatGPT use a complicated series of equations to understand and respond to your prompts. Here’s a look inside the system.

Looking for AI use-cases — Benedict Evans

We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies around that?

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine

Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

Large language models (LLMs) like the GPT family learn the statistical structure of language by optimising their ability to predict missing words in sentences (as in ‘The cat sat on the [BLANK]’). Despite the impressive technical ju-jitsu of transformer models and the billions of parameters they learn, it’s still a computational guessing game. ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter. The language model has no idea what it’s talking about because it has no idea about anything at all. It’s more of a bullshitter than the most egregious egoist you’ll ever meet, producing baseless assertions with unfailing confidence because that’s what it’s designed to do. It’s a bonus for the parent corporation when journalists and academics respond by generating acres of breathless coverage, which works as PR even when expressing concerns about the end of human creativity.

ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Wolfram plugin gives computationally accurate answers to ChatGPT queries using Wolfram's data knowledgebase and language. Custom visualizations are given as well. Stephen Wolfram explains how it works.

On-screen and now IRL: FSU researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults

If you’re not using ChatGPT for your writing, you’re probably making a mistake

How Ethan and Lilach Mollick learned to stop worrying and start using AI in their jobs.

What makes a great ChatGPT app | OpenAI Developers

How to build capabilities that make conversations better.

ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.

ChatGPT talks too much and it’s ruining learning

How the UX of AI chat can hijack our brains to compromise learning in schools and beyond

ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Google’s Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft are starting to cite Musk’s Wikipedia knockoff.

Build A Large Language Model (From Scratch), Published by Manning, ISBN 978-1633437166

Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step

ChatGPT Work with GPT-5.6

ChatGPT Work, powered by GPT-5.6, helps teams take on ambitious work and turn goals into finished outputs. Connect tools, automate tasks, and keep projects moving.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…