People expect ChatGPT to be as accurate as an encyclopaedia and as comprehensive as Google. But that’s a misconception. ChatGPT is trained to create content, not to tell the truth.

GPT models require fine-tuning, embedding, plugins, etc. on top of the base model to provide reliable information.

The real added value of ChatGPT lies in the language skills: for the first time you interact with a machine in natural language. And that’s pretty amazing in itself.

But GPT, Llama and other models are not real products, even if people pay for them. They are more like pieces of infrastructure that provide the ability to interact with a corpus of knowledge in natural language.