Tech giant Microsoft has made ChatGPT available on its own Azure OpenAI service.
Integration
Developers and businesses will now be able to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT model into their own cloud applications, enabling conversational AI in many other applications and services.
“Cognitive services can be combined with Azure OpenAI to create interesting use cases for companies. For example, see how Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search can be combined to use conversational languages to retrieve the knowledge base of the company’s data,” said the company.
Since ChatGPT was introduced in November last year, Microsoft says it can be used for a number of scenarios including summarizing content, creating recommended email copy, and even helping with software program questions.
Availability and pricing
Microsoft says Azure OpenAI users can start accessing the ChatGPT preview at a price set at $0.002 (R0.036 cents) for 1 000 tokens.
Billing for all ChatGPT usage begins March 13, as part of Azure OpenAI.
Developers must request special access, as the Azure OpenAI Service requires registration and is “currently only available to Microsoft-managed customers and partners”.
The new OpenAI ChatGPT was released last year, and created a buzz with over 1 million users signing up in the first five days.
Some say it could even replace Google Search and reinvent journalism as we know it.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an advanced natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI. This is a variant of the GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3) model designed specifically for conversational AI applications.
The technology can generate human-like text in response to input from users, allowing them to engage in natural language conversations on a variety of topics.
Unlike traditional chatbots, which are limited to predefined responses, ChatGPT can generate responses in real time based on the input it receives, allowing for more flexible and dynamic conversations.
Additional report by Cheryl Kahl.
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