On the evening of 27 March 2023, the 16th lecture "Guan Asia Interdisciplinary Workshop" was held simultaneously online and offline in Room 512, Kageng Building 2. Under the chairmanship of Professor Liu Feng, Associate Professor Zhou Yiyi, doctoral supervisor of the School of Information Science of Xiamen University, was invited to give an academic lecture entitled "Discussion on the development history and application prospects of ChatGPT".

Professor Liu Feng told the story of how in the 1960s, the president of Toyota created the JIT stock-free production mode in the automotive field after being inspired by the optional mode of Wal-Mart supermarkets in the United States. It is hoped that students, teachers and scholars in related fields can understand the knowledge of other disciplines from their own perspectives and positions, get inspiration from interdisciplinary lectures, and apply the knowledge of different disciplines to their professional fields.

Based on natural language processing, Associate Professor Zhou Yiyi stated what ChatGPT is and the reasons for its popularity, believing that it has laid the status of large models as artificial intelligence infrastructure and promoted the change of the new paradigm of general artificial intelligence. The innovation of ChatGPT is that it is a continuous evolution system engineering of complex AI software with human-machine collaboration, which can be reasonably expressed by reinforcement learning models. ChatGPT's powerful question-and-answer ability comes from large data resources, a large number of manual annotations, and repeated training of artificial Settings.

Then, Associate Professor Zhou Yiyi talked about the recent development of ChatGPT, compared the functions of Visual ChatGPT and GPT4, and showed the function of GPT4 about developing a website in 10 seconds and using pictures as input. ChatGPT can be used in question answering, paper reading, article writing, code programming, art creation, etc., but there are limitations of nonsense in question answering and reliability problems in data search. Talking about the impact of ChatGPT on employment, Associate Professor Zhou Yiyi believes that 49% of workers will be affected when ChatGPT is combined with existing technology, and writers, finance workers, and IT personnel are the key affected groups.

Professor Liu Feng says there should be optimism about new technologies like ChatGPT! At the same time, I hope students can think about how to distinguish machine-generated content from human-generated content after ChatGPT is widely used, and how to effectively distinguish web-generated content from real life content.

Finally, Associate Professor Zhou Yiyi exchanged and discussed with teachers and students online and offline. The lecture was successfully concluded!