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- The future is now,
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and it's equal parts cool and terrifying.

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That could describe a lot about 2023,

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(air swooshes)

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but I'm talking about an
AI chat bot called ChatGPT

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that can do just about
anything you ask it to.

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(air swooshes)

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Hey everyone!

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It's Jake with Lifehacker
and I'm not exaggerating.

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ChatGPT is really that good.

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You can ask it a question and
not only will it answer you,

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it'll do so as if a
human wrote the answer.

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(air swooshes)

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You can ask ChatGPT to convert
the current temperature

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from Fahrenheit to Celsius
and not only will it do it,

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it'll give you an exact breakdown

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as to how the conversion works.

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While simple questions like
this yield interesting results,

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the real fun is asking ChatGPT to create

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something for you.
(air swooshes)

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Ask the chat bot to write
a poem, story, or song

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(air swooshes)
with any number

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of parameters and requests,

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and it'll do it just as quickly

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as it explained temperature conversion.

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(air swooshes)

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I asked ChatGPT to write me a story

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about a killer
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clove of garlic.

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It isn't gonna win a Pulitzer,

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but it is seven paragraphs long,

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and it's entertaining as hell.

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(air swooshes)
Don't freak out yet.

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While ChatGPT is obviously impressive,

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it isn't connected to the internet.

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It's running on models
that are entirely offline,

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which means it doesn't actually know

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many current events prior to 2022.

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Sometimes it's fun to test its memory

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and see if it comes up with
its own versions of songs

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or stories that happened
after its knowledge base.

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I tried it with
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Taylor Swift's "Midnights."
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(lips smacking)
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Unlike other tools developed by OpenAI,

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ChatGPT is entirely free to use right now.

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Just make an account and ask away.

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(air swooshes)

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Thanks for watching.

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Stay tuned to Lifehacker

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on doing everything better.