OpenAI’s Amazing ChatGPT: Is It Promising for Niche Topics?

Asking ChatGPT about Petrophysics

Andy McDonald
Towards Data Science

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OpenAI has recently released their latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot prototype powered by a model from the GPT-3.5 series. It provides a service where you can ask questions and it comes back with a detailed answer in a conversational way. Almost as if you were talking to a human!

ChatGPT is based on a trained model using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback which allows it to simulate conversation, answer follow-up questions and even admit to mistakes.

Even though OpenAI’s ChatGPT has recently taken the internet by storm, is it as good as it seems when it comes to dealing with a niche topic?

Within this article I ask the chatbot 5 questions that are specific to my discipline of petrophysics and evaluate the responses the AI gives based on my domain knowledge.

Prompt 1: Explain petrophysics in simple terms

Idea:

Petrophysics is a very specialised domain within the oil and gas industry. Essentially, it is a role where we try to understand the physical properties of rocks, their fluid contents and how these fluids move through the rock. This role is mainly focused on oil and gas…

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