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Management 3720: The Entrepreneurial Mindset

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, similar to a chatbot, but more robust.

ChatGPT is not a search engine where you are given a set of results to a specific search, but instead it creates “new content” by predicting the word most likely to come next (e.g. based on HUGE dataset -- publicly available Internet sites as of 2020).

Language Learning Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, are designed to model human language and use mathematical models to predict what the next word is most likely to be based on what you are asking for.

Keep in mind: they don't think. They don't understand, read, choose or give you the "best information." Sometimes it might feel or seem like it, but this isn't how the technology works. That said, they also won't tell you where they got the information they're pulling from, and who is doing the work behind the scenes. Many, if not most, are unregulated and influenced by how we all interact with it. 

Note:  this text was taken from the University of Minnesota Library, https://libguides.umn.edu/chatgpt.

The University of Arizona Library has a good guide for students, https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/students-chatgpt/beyond.

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