OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a chatbot that is part of a new wave of generative AI, which is set to be one of the most disruptive forces in a decade to Big Tech, industries and the future of work. Microsoft has added the technology to its products, while competitors Google and Baidu are pushing to launch similar tools. ChatGPT is trained on a vast compilation of articles, websites and social-media posts scraped from the internet as well as real-time conversations with human contractors. OpenAI developed ChatGPT as part of a strategy to build AI software that will help the company turn a profit. The technology that underlies ChatGPT is Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT).