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title: An Interview with Maastricht University on how ChatGPT actually works.
description: "𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟!!\n\nSpecial Chair of Text-Mining (UM's FSE faculty) Johannes (Jan) C. Scholtes on how ChatGPT actually works, why it’s an amazing achievement and where we should probably exercise a bit of caution.\n\nScholtes: “It’s an amazing breakthrough that we can now generate language that’s no longer distinguishable from humans, but the very authentic authoritative language is also a problem because the model is unpredictable and not controllable when it comes to factuality.”"
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# [An Interview with Maastricht University on how ChatGPT actually works.](https://www.legaltechbridge.com/en/an-interview-with-maastricht-university-on-how-chatgpt-actually-works)

 Written by [Johannes (Jan) C. Scholtes](https://www.legaltechbridge.com/en/author/johannes-jan-c.-scholtes) | Feb 27, 2023, 2:57:57 PM

Recently, I was interviewed by Florian Raith, editor of the Maastricht University website. Offcourse, the topic of interest was ChatGPT. 

In the interview, I explain how ChatGPT actually works, why it’s an amazing achievement and where we should probably exercise a bit of caution.

One of the quotes: “It’s an amazing breakthrough that we can now generate language that’s no longer distinguishable from humans, but the very authentic authoritative language is also a problem because the model is unpredictable and not controllable when it comes to factuality.”

Florian did a really good job writing my views down in explainable and understandable language! 

Read the full interview here: [https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/i-wrote-all-myself](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/i-wrote-all-myself)

 

 

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