Creating a Human-like Chatbot: A Step-by-Step Guide to Training ChatGPT

Paulina Lewandowska

27 Jan 2023
Creating a Human-like Chatbot: A Step-by-Step Guide to Training ChatGPT

Introduction

It's difficult to create a chatbot that can have appropriate and realistic conversations. The GPT-2 model, which stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer 2, has been refined for conversational tasks after being trained on a vast amount of text data. In this post, we'll go through how to train a ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-training Transformer) model so that it may be adjusted to comprehend conversational cues and respond to them in a human-like manner. We'll go into detail about the crucial elements in this approach and how they help to produce a chatbot that can have conversations that flow naturally.

How ChatGPT was made?

ChatGPT is a variant of GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer), which is a transformer-based language model developed by OpenAI. GPT was trained on a massive dataset of internet text and fine-tuned for specific tasks such as language translation and question answering. GPT-2, an advanced version of GPT, was trained on even more data and has the ability to generate human-like text. ChatGPT is fine-tuned version of GPT-2 to improve its performance in conversational AI tasks.

Training ChatGPT typically involves the following steps:

Collect a large dataset of conversational text, such as transcripts of customer service chats, social media conversations, or other forms of dialog.

What to bear in mind while doing this?

  • The dataset should be large enough to capture a wide variety of conversational styles and topics. The more diverse the data, the better the model will be able to handle different types of input and generate more realistic and appropriate responses.
  • The data should be representative of the types of conversations the model will be used for. For example, if the model will be used in a customer service chatbot, it should be trained on transcripts of customer service chats.
  • If possible, include a variety of different speakers and languages. This will help the model to learn how to generate appropriate responses in different contexts and for different types of users.
  • The data should be diverse in terms of the number of speakers, languages, accents, and cultural background.
  • Label the data with the context of the conversation, such as topic, intent, sentiment, etc.
  • Be sure to filter out any personal information, sensitive data, or any data that could be used to identify a person.

Preprocess the data to clean and format it for training the model. This may include tokenizing the text, removing special characters, and converting the text to lowercase.

A crucial part of training a conversational model like ChatGPT is preprocessing the data. It is beneficial to organize and clean the data so that the model can be trained with ease. Tokenization is the act of dividing the text into smaller parts, like words or phrases, in more detail. This assists in transforming the text into a format that the model can process more quickly. An application like NLTK or SpaCy can be used to perform the tokenization procedure.

Eliminating special characters and changing the text's case are further crucial steps. Converting the text to lowercase helps to standardize the data and lowers the amount of unique words the model needs to learn. Special characters can cause problems while training the model. In data preparation, it's also a good idea to eliminate stop words, which are frequent words like "a," "an," "the," etc. that don't have any significant meaning. It's also a good idea to replace dates or numbers with a specific token like "NUM" or "DATE" when preparing data. In data preparation, it's also a good idea to replace terms that are unknown or not in the model's lexicon with a unique token, such as "UNK." 

It is crucial to note that preparing the data can take time, but it is necessary to make sure the model can benefit from the data. Preprocessing the data makes it easier for the model to interpret and learn from it. It also makes the data more consistent.

Fine-tune a pre-trained GPT-2 model on the conversational dataset using a framework such as Hugging Face's Transformers library.

The procedure entails tweaking the model's hyperparameters and running several epochs of training on the conversational dataset. This can be accomplished by utilizing a framework like Hugging Face's Transformers library, an open-source natural language processing toolkit that offers pre-trained models and user-friendly interfaces for optimizing them.

The rationale behind fine-tuning a pre-trained model is that it has previously been trained on a sizable dataset and has a solid grasp of the language's overall structure. The model can be refined on a conversational dataset so that it can learn to produce responses that are more tailored to the conversation's topic. The refined model will perform better at producing responses that are appropriate for customer service interactions, for instance, if the conversational dataset consists of transcripts of discussions with customer service representatives.

It is important to note that the model's hyperparameters, such as the learning rate, batch size, and number of layers, are frequently adjusted throughout the fine-tuning phase. The performance of the model can be significantly impacted by these hyperparameters, thus it's necessary to experiment with different settings to discover the ideal one. Additionally, depending on the size of the conversational dataset and the complexity of the model, the fine-tuning procedure can need a significant amount of time and processing resources. But in order for the model to understand the precise nuances and patterns of the dialogue and become more applicable to the task, this stage is essential.

Evaluate the model's performance on a held-out test set to ensure it generates realistic and appropriate responses.

A held-out test set, which is a dataset distinct from the data used to train and fine-tune the model, is one popular strategy. The model's capacity to produce realistic and pertinent responses is evaluated using the held-out test set. 

Measuring a conversational model's capacity to provide suitable and realistic responses is a typical technique to assess its performance. This can be achieved by assessing the similarity between the model-generated and human-written responses. Utilizing metrics like BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, and others is one approach to do this. These metrics assess how comparable the automatically generated and manually written responses are to one another.

Measuring a conversational model's capacity to comprehend and respond to various inputs is another technique to assess its performance. This can be accomplished by putting the model to the test with various inputs and evaluating how well it responds to them. You might test the model using inputs with various intents, subjects, or feelings and assess how effectively it can react.

Use the trained model to generate responses to new input.

Once trained and improved, the model can be utilized to produce answers to fresh input. The last stage in creating a chatbot is testing the model to make sure it can respond realistically and appropriately to new input. The trained model processes the input before producing a response. It's crucial to remember that the caliber of the reaction will depend on the caliber of the training data and the procedure of fine-tuning.

Context is crucial when using a trained model to generate responses in a conversation. To produce responses that are relevant and appropriate to the current conversation, it's important to keep track of the conversation history. A dialogue manager, which manages the conversation history and creates suitable inputs for the model, can be used to accomplish this.

Especially when employing a trained model to generate responses, it's critical to ensure the quality of the responses the model generates. As the model might not always create suitable or realistic responses, a technique for weeding out improper responses should be in place. Using a post-processing phase that would filter out inappropriate responses and choose the best one is one way to accomplish this.

Conclusion

Training a ChatGPT model is a multi-step process that requires a large amount of data. The GPT-2 model with its ability to generate human-like text and fine-tuning it with conversational dataset can lead to very powerful results which might be extremely helpful in everyday life. The process of training is essential in creating a chatbot that can understand and respond to conversational prompts in a natural and seamless manner. As the field of AI continues to evolve, the development of sophisticated chatbots will play an increasingly important role in enhancing the way we interact with technology. Interested? Check out our other articles related to AI!

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Aethir Tokenomics – Case Study

Kajetan Olas

22 Nov 2024
Aethir Tokenomics – Case Study

Authors of the contents are not affiliated to the reviewed project in any way and none of the information presented should be taken as financial advice.

In this article we analyze tokenomics of Aethir - a project providing on-demand cloud compute resources for the AI, Gaming, and virtualized compute sectors.
Aethir aims to aggregate enterprise-grade GPUs from multiple providers into a DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network). Its competitive edge comes from utlizing the GPUs for very specific use-cases, such as low-latency rendering for online games.
Due to decentralized nature of its infrastructure Aethir can meet the demands of online-gaming in any region. This is especially important for some gamer-abundant regions in Asia with underdeveloped cloud infrastructure that causes high latency ("lags").
We will analyze Aethir's tokenomics, give our opinion on what was done well, and provide specific recommendations on how to improve it.

Evaluation Summary

Aethir Tokenomics Structure

The total supply of ATH tokens is capped at 42 billion ATH. This fixed cap provides a predictable supply environment, and the complete emissions schedule is listed here. As of November 2024 there are approximately 5.2 Billion ATH in circulation. In a year from now (November 2025), the circulating supply will almost triple, and will amount to approximately 15 Billion ATH. By November 2028, today's circulating supply will be diluted by around 86%.

From an investor standpoint the rational decision would be to stake their tokens and hope for rewards that will balance the inflation. Currently the estimated APR for 3-year staking is 195% and for 4-year staking APR is 261%. The rewards are paid out weekly. Furthermore, stakers can expect to get additional rewards from partnered AI projects.

Staking Incentives

Rewards are calculated based on the staking duration and staked amount. These factors are equally important and they linearly influence weekly rewards. This means that someone who stakes 100 ATH for 2 weeks will have the same weekly rewards as someone who stakes 200 ATH for 1 week. This mechanism greatly emphasizes long-term holding. That's because holding a token makes sense only if you go for long-term staking. E.g. a whale staking $200k with 1 week lockup. will have the same weekly rewards as person staking $1k with 4 year lockup. Furthermore the ATH staking rewards are fixed and divided among stakers. Therefore Increase of user base is likely to come with decrease in rewards.
We believe the main weak-point of Aethirs staking is the lack of equivalency between rewards paid out to the users and value generated for the protocol as a result of staking.

Token Distribution

The token distribution of $ATH is well designed and comes with long vesting time-frames. 18-month cliff and 36-moths subsequent linear vesting is applied to team's allocation. This is higher than industry standard and is a sign of long-term commitment.

  • Checkers and Compute Providers: 50%
  • Ecosystem: 15%
  • Team: 12.5%
  • Investors: 11.5%
  • Airdrop: 6%
  • Advisors: 5%

Aethir's airdrop is divided into 3 phases to ensure that only loyal users get rewarded. This mechanism is very-well thought and we rate it highly. It fosters high community engagement within the first months of the project and sets the ground for potentially giving more-control to the DAO.

Governance and Community-Led Development

Aethir’s governance model promotes community-led decision-making in a very practical way. Instead of rushing with creation of a DAO for PR and marketing purposes Aethir is trying to make it the right way. They support projects building on their infrastructure and regularly share updates with their community in the most professional manner.

We believe Aethir would benefit from implementing reputation boosted voting. An example of such system is described here. The core assumption is to abandon the simplistic: 1 token = 1 vote and go towards: Votes = tokens * reputation_based_multiplication_factor.

In the attached example, reputation_based_multiplication_factor rises exponentially with the number of standard deviations above norm, with regard to user's rating. For compute compute providers at Aethir, user's rating could be replaced by provider's uptime.

Perspectives for the future

While it's important to analyze aspects such as supply-side tokenomics, or governance, we must keep in mind that 95% of project's success depends on demand-side. In this regard the outlook for Aethir may be very bright. The project declares $36M annual reccuring revenue. Revenue like this is very rare in the web3 space. Many projects are not able to generate any revenue after succesfull ICO event, due to lack fo product-market-fit.

If you're looking to create a robust tokenomics model and go through institutional-grade testing please reach out to contact@nextrope.com. Our team is ready to help you with the token engineering process and ensure your project’s resilience in the long term.

Quadratic Voting in Web3

Kajetan Olas

04 Dec 2024
Quadratic Voting in Web3

Decentralized systems are reshaping how we interact, conduct transactions, and govern online communities. As Web3 continues to advance, the necessity for effective and fair voting mechanisms becomes apparent. Traditional voting systems, such as the one-token-one-vote model, often fall short in capturing the intensity of individual preferences, which can result in centralization. Quadratic Voting (QV) addresses this challenge by enabling individuals to express not only their choices but also the strength of their preferences.

In QV, voters are allocated a budget of credits that they can spend to cast votes on various issues. The cost of casting multiple votes on a single issue increases quadratically, meaning that each additional vote costs more than the last. This system allows for a more precise expression of preferences, as individuals can invest more heavily in issues they care deeply about while conserving credits on matters of lesser importance.

Understanding Quadratic Voting

Quadratic Voting (QV) is a voting system designed to capture not only the choices of individuals but also the strength of their preferences. In most DAO voting mechanisms, each person typically has one vote per token, which limits the ability to express how strongly they feel about a particular matter. Furthermore, QV limits the power of whales and founding team who typically have large token allocations. These problems are adressed by making the cost of each additional vote increase quadratically.

In QV, each voter is given a budget of credits or tokens that they can spend to cast votes on various issues. The key principle is that the cost to cast n votes on a single issue is proportional to the square of n. This quadratic cost function ensures that while voters can express stronger preferences, doing so requires a disproportionately higher expenditure of their voting credits. This mechanism discourages voters from concentrating all their influence on a single issue unless they feel very strongly about it. In the context of DAOs, it means that large holders will have a hard-time pushing through with a proposal if they'll try to do it on their own.

Practical Example

Consider a voter who has been allocated 25 voting credits to spend on several proposals. The voter has varying degrees of interest in three proposals: Proposal A, Proposal B, and Proposal C.

  • Proposal A: High interest.
  • Proposal B: Moderate interest.
  • Proposal C: Low interest.

The voter might allocate their credits as follows:

Proposal A:

  • Votes cast: 3
  • Cost: 9 delegated tokens

Proposal B:

  • Votes cast: 2
  • Cost: 4 delegated tokens

Proposal C:

  • Votes cast: 1
  • Cost: 1 delegated token

Total delegated tokens: 14
Remaining tokens: 11

With the remaining tokens, the voter can choose to allocate additional votes to the proposals based on their preferences or save for future proposals. If they feel particularly strong about Proposal A, they might decide to cast one more vote:

Additional vote on Proposal A:

  • New total votes: 4
  • New cost: 16 delegated tokens
  • Additional cost: 16−9 = 7 delegated tokens

Updated total delegated tokens: 14+7 = 21

Updated remaining tokens: 25−21 = 425 - 21 = 4

This additional vote on Proposal A costs 7 credits, significantly more than the previous vote, illustrating how the quadratic cost discourages excessive influence on a single issue without strong conviction.

Benefits of Implementing Quadratic Voting

Key Characteristics of the Quadratic Cost Function

  • Marginal Cost Increases Linearly: The marginal cost of each additional vote increases linearly. The cost difference between casting n and n−1 votes is 2n−1.
  • Total Cost Increases Quadratically: The total cost to cast multiple votes rises steeply, discouraging voters from concentrating too many votes on a single issue without significant reason.
  • Promotes Egalitarian Voting: Small voters are encouraged to participate, because relatively they have a much higher impact.

Advantages Over Traditional Voting Systems

Quadratic Voting offers several benefits compared to traditional one-person-one-vote systems:

  • Captures Preference Intensity: By allowing voters to express how strongly they feel about an issue, QV leads to outcomes that better reflect the collective welfare.
  • Reduces Majority Domination: The quadratic cost makes it costly for majority groups to overpower minority interests on every issue.
  • Encourages Honest Voting: Voters are incentivized to allocate votes in proportion to their true preferences, reducing manipulation.

By understanding the foundation of Quadratic Voting, stakeholders in Web3 communities can appreciate how this system supports more representative governance.

Conclusion

Quadratic voting is a novel voting system that may be used within DAOs to foster decentralization. The key idea is to make the cost of voting on a certain issue increase quadratically. The leading player that makes use of this mechanism is Optimism. If you're pondering about the design of your DAO, we highly recommend taking a look at their research on quadratic funding.

If you're looking to create a robust governance model and go through institutional-grade testing please reach out to contact@nextrope.com. Our team is ready to help you with the token engineering process and ensure that your DAO will stand out as a beacon of innovation and resilience in the long term.