Is ChatGPT a Genie in a Bottle?

People are saying it's like having your own personal genie in a bottle, but for brainstorming and stuff. Intrigued, right? Let me tell you what I learned.

ChatGPT definitely isn't some magic trick. It's an artificial intelligence system called a large language model (LLM for short). These things are basically trained on mountains of text data (I think they're saying something like the whole of the internet), which lets them chat and write in a "human-like" form. I've had a play with the free version and I can see why people are buzzing about how it could change the way we work, especially when it comes to innovation.

The easiest way to describe it is like having a brainstorming buddy who can help with research, exploring different angles, automate repetitive tasks, and it can also write some code. There's more things this technology can do and it's been around some time. Companies are already using ChatGPT-like tools to get things done. For instance, there's this healthcare chatbot called Med-PaLM. It uses the same tech (generative AI) as ChatGPT to answer medical professionals' questions in a safe way. This is so cool and I can't wait to see more use cases in the coming months as we test this out.

In a ‘chat’ I had with ChatGPT last night, we explored pharmaceutical industry use cases including: therapy discovery and development, clinical trial recruitment, safety monitoring, regulatory compliance, lit reviews, just to name a few. My research has found that these aren't just theoretical but already in use today!

As fun as ChatGPT has been to play with and I encourage EVERYONE to check it out there's one major caveat: it's still in development so take responses with a grain of salt.