ChatGPT

Definition

Plain language

The popular chatbot you type questions into and it writes back in plain language.

Why it matters: It brought conversational AI to everyday users, making powerful language models accessible to people who never write a line of code.

For example, a student stuck on a homework problem can type it into ChatGPT and get a written explanation in seconds.

Heard on the show

“That's this paper, except the front desk is ChatGPT.”

Mentioned in 13 episodes

1. 241
   Swapping the Name Did Nothing, But Hedging Moved Every Model
2. 239
   Why the AI-Writing Estimate for Biomedical Papers Jumped From 15% to 89%
3. 230
   Why AI Survey Panels Break Before the Dice Ever Roll
4. 228
   Same Chatbot, Two Doors: Why 'Grok's Opinion' Doesn't Exist
5. 226
   How a Speed Feature Lets a Stranger Poison Your AI's Answer
6. 223
   When Grok Graded Its Own Encyclopedia And Marked Itself Down
7. 221
   Two Hundred Clean Economics Answers, And a Model That Endorses Race Science
8. 218
   When Universities Say Embrace AI But Half the CS Syllabi Ban It
9. 215
   The Same Policy Scored 85 for the US and 36 for Russia
10. 210
    Same Website Request, Different Code — The Bias You Can't See
11. 201
    One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist
12. 090
    How MiniMax-M2 Bets That Sparsity Plus Verifiable Rewards Can Match Frontier Agents
13. 015
    The Audit Number Isn't What You Think: Sycophancy and the Case Against Single-Prompt Bias Tests

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