OpenAI is a non-profit company that researches AI based in San Francisco, California. Their latest offering, ChatGPT, is an AI tool that interacts with the user in a conversational way, meaning users can ask questions and make requests in regular, everyday English instead of requiring the use of special commands.
ChatGPT isn’t the only impressive AI writing tool out there, but it is free to use and, therefore, more accessible for people to “take it for a spin” and test its capabilities. Elna views AI chatbots as helpful writing tools but does not see them as being able to replace human writers. While the written results produced by chatbots can be impressive, they cannot replicate the same quality of writing as a skilled human. That being said, these tools can be beneficial to writers as aids to the writing process, acting as more of an assistant than a stand-in. “We shouldn’t be afraid of it,” Elna explains, “it’s like a first draft type of tool.
Jasper essentially “learns” from user inputs, and over time the content it produced improved. After trying Jasper again roughly six months later, Cain was pleasantly surprised by the improvement in the chatbot’s output, along with some new features.