Chatbots are computer programs that are made to connect with humans either with voice or text. Their main purpose is to mimic human behaviour and act as a communication partner to humans.
Chatbots existed previously too, but they are now booming due to the introduction of artificial intelligence. The old bots without the AI technology used to only respond to predefined texts such as weather information and are not able to reply if user asks anything besides that.
But after the artificial intelligence and natural language processing, the chatbot nowadays can understand what the user is trying to say and can reply accordingly.
Due to AI now chatbots can do so many tasks as it understands what user want, they can provide weather forecast for custom dates, help users in deciding something, summarize some text and provide their own opinions on some topic or product.
On 30th Nov 2022 OpenAI announced their most powerful GPT-3 model also known as ChatGPT which is the most powerful chatbot. They announced more models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 which can accept images too and analyse them to recognise what’s going on and find similar images.
After ChatGPT getting famous many companies launched their own chatbots which can also find information on the internet and reply to the user with up-to-date information like Google’s Bard, Bing’s AI, Meta’s Llama 2 and many more.
These chatbots use large language model and generative based to correctly understand what user is tyring to say and reply according to it.
These models converse like two individuals are talking to each other. They understand different types of symbolic and textual languages to understand the tone of the user and respond within seconds.
Popular Chatbots:
There are number of chatbots in different industries providing assistance to different personnels.
Some of them are:
- GPT-4(ChatGPT):
GPT-4 is a large multimodal model which accepts image and text inputs, and responds with text outputs that exhibits human-level performance on various scenarios. It is the most advanced model and is the first one to accept images and reply to them. It provides its api to others so many other chatbots also work on its large language model for generation of responses.
- Midjourney:
Midjourney is an AI bot that is capable of converting text to images. It allows human to see their imagination, they can prompt what they are thinking and this bot can provide by generating the image that fits that description. It is capable of making images that are so accurate that users are surprised and even use that to create doom and end of humans and the results are mesmerising.
- Jasper AI:
Jasper AI bot is specifically designed to create content. It can help Businesses by creating marketing copy, blog posts, product descriptions and even emails. Many businesses use that to make creative contents and use it to promote their business.
- Character AI:
Character AI bot is made to debate. Users can use this bot and tell it to mimic like some other person and then ask question with it. For example, users can tell this bot to mimic Elon Musk and ask the future about twitter app.
- Snapchat’s My AI:
Snapchat’s My AI is a personalised chatbot for every user that can learn about them and provide them with fast response. It is designed to help users with their feelings and emotions and make them feel less lonely.