What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to generate human-like responses to text prompts. It has been trained on a large dataset from the internet, allowing it to understand and generate text in a conversational manner.

Tokens are the basic units of text used by language models like ChatGPT. A token can be as short as a single character or as long as a word. When processing text, the model breaks it down into tokens for analysis and generation. Tokens are important because they determine the computational cost of using the model. Models have a maximum token limit, and longer conversations require more tokens, which can affect the response length or even lead to truncation. By using tokens, the model can efficiently process and generate text within these limits.