ChatGPT explained..

Anil Tiwari
3 min readApr 3, 2023

History of Chat GPT evolution, how ChatGPT works..

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT these days. Everyone is asking about, how it works? how the magic happens? These curious questions are being asked by lot of non-technical background peoples around me. I will try to explain here how ChatGPT works without going into technical details.

Since the release of ChatGPT from last year (Nov 2022), it has been wildly successful launch, that forces even tech giant like Google to rush to release of its version of GPT called Google Bard.

History of Chat GPT evolution:

Let's start with timeline of evolution of GPT and different versions of language transformer models.

ChatGPT launched by OpenAI, founded in 2015 for the purpose of Research in field of AI. Here is the brief history of evolution of GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer).

GPT timeline

As you can see from above timelines, that GPT evolved from transformer architecture and gained its abilities through many iterations.

How it works:

What ChatGPT does, it’s always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have

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Anil Tiwari
Anil Tiwari

Written by Anil Tiwari

Technology Lead, AI, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, App modernization, Design and development of enterprise apps. https://techbabas.com

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