ChatGPT: ascertaining the self-evident. The use of AI in generating human knowledge

TL;DR

This paper analyzes ChatGPT's principles, applications, and ethical issues, highlighting its rapid adoption, potential to generate human-like knowledge, and societal implications, based on experimental queries and discussions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of ChatGPT's operational principles, applications, and ethical concerns, emphasizing its societal impact and practical usage insights.

Findings

ChatGPT demonstrates human-like language generation capabilities.

It appears honest and self-aware in responses.

The tool's widespread use raises societal and ethical concerns.

Abstract

The fundamental principles, potential applications, and ethical concerns of ChatGPT are analyzed and discussed in this study. Since ChatGPT emerged, it has gained a rapidly growing popularity, with more than 600 million users today. The development of ChatGPT was a significant mile-stone, as it demonstrated the potential of large-scale language models to generate natural language responses that are almost indistinguishable from those of a human. ChatGPT's operational principles, prospective applications, and ability to advance a range of human endeavours are discussed in the paper. However, much of the work discusses and poses moral and other problems that rely on the subject. To document the latter, we submitted 14 queries and captured the ChatGPT responses. ChatGPT appeared to be honest, self-knowledgeable, and careful with its answers. The authors come to the realization that since AI is already a part of society, the pervasiveness of the ChatGPT tool to the general public has once again brought to light concerns regarding AI in general. Still, they have moved from the domain of scientific community collective reflection at a conceptual level to everyday practice this time.