How Does ChatGPT Work?

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ChatGPT works as a conversational assistant based on artificial intelligence. The user asks it a question or gives it an instruction, and the system generates a response in natural language. This instruction is usually called a prompt: it may be a simple question, a writing request, a request for explanation, a text to summarize, a programming problem, or a more complex task. OpenAI describes ChatGPT as an AI assistant that can be used for everyday activities such as generating ideas, writing, studying, planning, mathematics, programming, and analyzing images or files, depending on the functions available to the user.

What Is ChatGPT?

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ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence assistant developed by OpenAI, capable of understanding instructions written in natural language and generating answers, explanations, texts, analyses, and other types of content. Unlike traditional computer programs, where users must select precise commands or functions, … Read More

OpenAI unveils “Aardvark,” a GPT-5–powered agent to hunt and patch code vulnerabilities

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OpenAI has announced Aardvark, an “agentic security researcher” built on GPT-5 that continuously scans software projects for exploitable bugs and proposes fixes. The tool launched in private beta on October 30 and is pitched as a way to help engineering … Read More

ChatGPT to Allow Erotica for Verified Adults Starting in December

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OpenAI will relax some of ChatGPT’s long-standing content restrictions and permit erotica for age-verified adult users beginning in December 2025, CEO Sam Altman announced on Tuesday, October 14. Altman framed the shift under a principle to “treat adult users like … Read More

ChatGPT Canvas, a new way to write blog posts or essays, code scripts or write emails

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OpenAI has released ChatGPT Canvas, a text and code editor that lets you customize any element or your entire project with the help of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT Canvas offers a space dedicated to extensive projects, allowing you to create and … Read More

OpenAI o1, the artificial intelligence at a new level of reasoning

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The modern era of artificial intelligence began with the development of large language models, such as ChatGPT (2023), and the initial development of key architectures and algorithms, such as the transformer architecture, in 2017, which led to the scaling and … Read More

Sam Altman, ChatGPT and Small Modular Reactors

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(A light water small modular nuclear reactor. Credit: U.S. Government Accountability Office/Wikimedia Commons) Sam Altman is an entrepreneur, investor, and former president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that has funded companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. He is also … Read More