ChatGPT is an advanced language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to engage in interactive and dynamic conversations with users, offering a wide range of applications and possibilities. Powered by deep learning techniques, ChatGPT has been trained on a massive corpus of text from the internet, allowing it to generate human-like responses to various prompts and inquiries. By leveraging its language understanding and generation capabilities, ChatGPT aims to provide helpful and informative responses while assisting users in tasks such as answering questions, providing explanations, offering suggestions, and engaging in general conversation. It is important to note that while ChatGPT is a powerful tool, it has certain limitations, and critical evaluation of its responses is always recommended.
No Realtime Internet Access
Chat GPT generates responses based on patterns in the data it was trained on (Sept 2021), as it does not offer real time internet access as of today. You can not use Chat GPT for topics like current events, stocks, happenings, weather forecasting, or page or article summarization. etc. This limitation creates further related limitations as below,
Lack of real-world understanding: ChatGPT does not possess true comprehension or common sense reasoning. It may produce answers that are technically correct but lack practicality or real-world understanding.
Inability to verify information: While ChatGPT strives to provide accurate information, it cannot independently verify the accuracy or truthfulness of the information it generates. Users should critically evaluate and fact-check the responses it provides.
Potential for biased or inappropriate responses: ChatGPT has been trained on large amounts of internet text, which may include biased or inappropriate content. It aims to avoid generating biased or offensive responses, but it may still exhibit such behavior unintentionally.
Lack of Image Recognition
ChatGPT can only process and generate text-based responses. It cannot handle or interpret non-textual information such as images, audio, or video.
While it can potentially provide information or descriptions related to images based on textual prompts, it does not have direct access to image data or the ability to process and analyze images on its own. ChatGPT’s understanding of images is limited to the textual information it has learned from its training data, which includes descriptions and discussions about images but not the images themselves.
For image recognition tasks, it is recommended to use specialized computer vision vision models and libraries, such as OpenCV, TensorFlow, or PyTorch, which are more suitable for image analysis and processing tasks. These models are trained on large-scale image datasets and utilize techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract features and make predictions based on visual inputs.
Inefficient Coding
ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for coding-related tasks, but it has certain limitations in terms of efficiency and accuracy when it comes to coding. While it has been trained on a diverse range of internet text, including programming-related content, it is not specifically designed or optimized for coding tasks.
ChatGPT can assist with providing general explanations, answering coding-related questions, and offering suggestions. It may help with understanding concepts, providing basic code snippets, or guiding users through simple coding problems. However, it may struggle with more complex or specific coding challenges, as it lacks the ability to execute or test code.
Chat GPT also can not be used for Debugging tasks as it does not have any access to code libraries or repositories like GitHub, etc.
Repetitive and Lack of Context
ChatGPT can be sensitive to how a question is phrased. Even a slight rephrase of the same question can sometimes yield different responses, which may not always be consistent or accurate. Due to this limitation ChatGPT may sometimes provide excessively verbose or repetitive responses. It doesn’t always exhibit concise communication and can overuse certain phrases.
ChatGPT does not maintain context beyond a few recent messages. It treats each user turn as a separate prompt, which can lead to a loss of conversation context and make it necessary to repeat or clarify information.
When presented with ambiguous queries, ChatGPT may either ask for clarification or provide a general response that may not fully address the user’s intended meaning.
No Option to Export
Chat GPT does provide an option to copy the generated response, but you can not export it to work or other formats or directly upload the same to social media platforms.
It is important to use ChatGPT as a tool to assist with information and to exercise critical thinking while verifying the generated responses with reliable sources when necessary. We are yet to see how Google’s Bard AI can be used and what are its full featured. It will also be interesting to see how Open AI will handle the upcoming computation from Google Bard (https://bard.google.com/).