Robin Qiu
May 16, 2023
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Digital Transformation and Society
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GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a type of large language model (LLM) trained by leveraging neural networks and a vast large dataset mainly derived from the Internet. An LLM uses a recently fast evolved machine learning technique called deep learning to produce text that looks like it is produced by a human. When LLMs are well leveraged, empowered applications can perform various natural language processing tasks such as answering questions, summarizing texts and even generating or debugging lines of code. Undoubtedly, the ongoing, astonishing phenomenal artificial intelligence (AI) wave worldwide is attributed to the recently released ChatGPT whose LLM engine was trained by OpenAI using a massive dataset of web pages over the Internet, which included billions of texts from books, articles and other sources. Furthermore, the new release of GPT-4 from OpenAI further enhanced the capability of ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5. It takes a longer text and an image as input, while generating much richer and improved responses than its earlier version. Text summarization, humanlike conversation, music and essay composition, poetry and story writing, fake news generation are just a few listed here as GPT or the like AI’s output today. Indeed, the generated viral sensation and excitement from GPT or generative AI in general have already made GPT an extremely hot topic for almost everyone, including from end users, educators, engineers, scientists, to entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and so on so forth. The overwhelming attention received from the advances of GPT has stimulated the emergence of a lot of variants of ChatGPT worldwide. Due to the flocking-in effects of capitalism or marketing propaganda, many of those variants might be imposters. AI policymakers and educators are deeply concerned with the negativity of the outcomes derived from GPT products, including but not limited to disinformation, academic cheating, deepfakes, bias, ethical implications and political propaganda. However, the majority of GPT related AI products are truly transforming the world in a positive manner, focusing on significantly improved productivity, convenience and daily life assistance that should make the world brighter and more promising over time. Yes, it seems a little bit chaotic for now due to the lack of the needed AI regulations and risk management protocols. But AI will certainly continue to evolve and the output from the future AI could be drastically out of our imagination. While we are witnessing the dawn of a new digitalized era, the world starts to wonder how radical changes could be in the coming days when compared to the transformations in humanity with the arrival of electricity, personal computers, the Internet, or smartphones. As we are waiting for safe protocols and regulatory frameworks around AI to ensure that the risks aroundAIwill bemanageable, this editorial calls onmore research on howGPT or the like can revolutionize AI applications to empower positively the future digital transformations in serving the industry, government, public, society and human beings at large. Editorial