Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is not only an intelligent chatbot but also a breakthrough in natural language processing. Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has quickly become a global phenomenon, attracting more than 100 million users in just 2 months, making it the fastest growing application in history. In this article, FPT AI will introduce you in detail what ChatGPT is, the reason why it is causing a global fever, and guide you on how to create a free ChatGPT account.
What is ChatGPT?
What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) is a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capable of understanding and generating text with natural language created by OpenAI. ChatGPT is developed on the Large Language Model (LLM) platform – a model capable of reading, summarizing, and translating text. Thanks to that, this chatbot can predict the next word in a sentence, as naturally as a human communicates.

Why is ChatGPT causing a “fever” all over the world? The answer is the outstanding progress in natural language processing.
Unlike traditional language models, which are often limited by the amount of training data and rely only on simple statistical techniques to predict the next word in a sequence, ChatGPT uses the Transformer architecture. This architecture allows for parallel processing of large amounts of data, helping ChatGPT learn more about language and its nuances, understanding and generating text with a higher degree of naturalness.
The superiority of ChatGPT is also reflected in its ability to integrate into solutions such as chatbots, virtual assistants, machine translation systems, text summarization tools, etc. ChatGPT has changed the way of working in areas such as customer support, content creation, programming and education, helping millions of people save time and improve work efficiency.
In addition, ChatGPT can also handle a variety of text, images and sounds. The latest updates have allowed ChatGPT to interact with users in an increasingly natural and intelligent way, opening up application opportunities in complex areas such as science, medicine, and big data research.
With these achievements, it is no wonder that ChatGPT has easily taken the lead in the AI race worldwide. Currently, the number of users of the ChatGPT tool developed by Open AI is approximately 100 million people / month. This is the fastest growing consumer app in history, just two months after its public launch.
What are the highlights of ChatGPT?
With the continuous advancement of AI technology, ChatGPT is increasingly appreciated for its ability to generate rich and contextually-variable answers. Here are 2 outstanding benefits of this AI Chatbot:
- Naturality: ChatGPT is created by a Large Language Model. Therefore, every sentence generated by this AI Chatbot creates the feeling of communicating with a real person, convincing, attractive, enough to attract users to enjoy long-term communication with the computer.
- Innovation: The Large Language Model applies statistical probability models to create a certain level of randomness in the results. It is this randomness, combined with the ability to understand context and conversation history, that helps ChatGPT respond and create different answers, even when the questions are the same.
How does ChatGPT work? What is the algorithm behind ChatGPT?
ChatGPT currently has a huge storage space of up to 570GB and has been trained on over 300 billion words. The large text dataset (from articles, conversations, documents, etc.) helps this chatbot learn and learn sample sentences and structures of the language. Once it has learned enough, ChatGPT can create its own text based on a specific suggestion or topic.
ChatGPT’s learning method is Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). This allows ChatGPT to not only understand but also generate more accurate answers with each interaction. For example, when you ask “How many satellites does the Sun have?”, if the answer is wrong, the model will automatically update the data and provide a more accurate response next time.
The algorithm ChatGPT uses is a Transformer – A computer program designed to mimic the way the human brain works by training a neural network on a large amount of data. This allows it to analyze and understand large amounts of text data, and use this understanding to generate texts that resemble human conversation.

What can we use ChatGPT for?
ChatGPT has many features beyond answering simple questions. It can write essays, chat philosophy, do math, and even write code. Some other practical applications include creating to-do lists, shopping lists, and “to-do” lists that help users improve their daily productivity.
ChatGPT applications:
- Write essays
- Create apps
- Write programming code
- Build resumes
- Write Excel formulas
- Summary
- Write cover letters
- Start a business on Etsy
- Create charts and tables
- Browse the web
- Create custom AI assistants
- Analyze PDF documents
- Digitize handwritten notes
- Write Arduino drivers
Is ChatGPT free? How to create a free ChatGPT account
Since November 2, 2023, ChatGPT has officially been available in Vietnam. Users in Vietnam can easily register and use ChatGPT for free with functions such as writing and encoding through the website chat.openai.com, or download the ChatGPT application on Android and iOS.
Here is how to create a free ChatGPT account from the website. Specifically, you need to perform the following 6 steps:
Step 1: Access the website chat.openai.com, select “Sign Up” in the right corner of the screen

Step 2: Enter your email and click continue

Step 3: Enter the password you want to create in the password box and click continue. Remember that your password must be more than 12 characters.

Step 4: Then you will be sent an email asking you to confirm the email sent, click Open Gmail and find the newly received email and confirm the account in it.

Step 5: Click Confirm Email to successfully create an account.

On the phone, to create a free ChatGPT account, you also need to go through 6 steps. Here are instructions on how to create a ChatGPT account on your phone:
Step 1: Download the ChatGPT app from Google Play Store (Android) or App Store (iOS)

Step 2: Select Sign up with Email

Step 3: Enter the Email address used to register for your personal ChatGPT account, then click Continue

Step 4: Set your account password, remember it is over 12 characters and then click Continue

Step 5: Click Open Email App to verify your account

Step 6: Enter your personal information and your main phone number in Vietnam then click Continue to verify your account

Step 7: Enter the 6-digit code sent to your phone number to complete ChatGPT account verification

In addition, ChatGPT also offers the ChatGPT Plus package for $20 per month. If you purchase this package, you will have priority access to GPT-4o, DALL-E 3, unlimited image generation, Canvas, Voice Mode and the latest upgrades.
Latest Chat GPT Updates
Throughout its development, OpenAI has continuously upgraded and updated ChatGPT to bring a better user experience. Below is a summary of the ChatGPT versions up to now:
- ChatGPT-1: Released in 2018, this is the first version of the GPT (Generative Pre – Trained Transformer) language model with 117 million parameters. ChatGPT 1 has many limitations but is a solid foundation for the next versions.
- ChatGPT-2: Released in 2019, ChatGPT 2 has 1.5 billion parameters with the ability to generate a coherent text or long text.
- ChatGPT-3: Released by Open AI in 2020, this version has 175 billion parameters. This helps improve the accuracy and naturalness of the response.
- Chat GPT 3.5: This version is an upgraded version of ChatGPT 3, with many improvements in performance, context retention, and response quality.
- Chat GPT 4.o: The latest version updated on May 13, 2024. This version has about 10 trillion parameters and performs much better than Chat GPT 3.5 with the ability to respond almost perfectly.
Below is a detailed comparison table of the differences between Chat GPT 3.5 and Chat GPT 4.0:
Chat GPT 3.5 | Chat GPT 4.0 | |
---|---|---|
Goals | Suitable for natural language and multimodal tasks | Focus on reasoning and complex problem solving |
Multimodal capabilities | Supports text, voice and images | Text only supported |
Efficiency | Good at natural language and multimodal tasks | Excels at reasoning, problem solving, and programming tasks |
Cost and speed | Faster and more cost efficency | Higher cost and slower speed due to complex calculations |
Ideal applications | Suitable for content synthesis, machine translation, and chatbot tasks | Ideal for math, programming and scientific research tasks |
Limits | Limited ability to reason deeply | No support for multimodality and simple natural language tasks |
Most recently, on September 12, 2024, OpenAI introduced a new family of AI models called o1. ChatGPT-o1-Preview is designed to enhance reasoning and solve complex problems in areas such as science, programming, and mathematics.
New updates on OpenAI o1:
- OpenAI has increased the rate limit for o1-mini for Plus and Team users by 7x – from 50 messages per week to 50 messages per day.
- For o1-preview, the rate limit is increased from 30 to 50 messages per week.

What are the disadvantages of ChatGPT?
ChatGPT in particular and Large Language Models in general are models designed to generate content that mimics the way humans speak or write based on input information and context. However, there is no way to ensure that this content is accurate in the real world. Here are the three biggest limitations of ChatGPT:
Accuracy
The biggest drawback of ChatGPT is that the results and sentences it generates, although very natural like the way humans communicate, are not accurate. Open AI, the developer and publisher of ChatGPT, also confirmed that “ChatGPT sometimes gives answers that sound reasonable, but are actually incorrect or meaningless”. The reasons for this are:
- The input data contains incorrect, outdated or outdated information.
- ChatGPT confuses context, giving information that is correct in one context, but not suitable in another context.
- ChatGPT learns from incomplete data sets, giving accurate but incomplete results.
More dangerously, ChatGPT itself cannot recognize that the information it gives is wrong, and sometimes overconfidently affirms false information to users. This is harmful to those who do not have accurate information but completely trust ChatGPT. Once the risk leads to real consequences, in addition to customer dissatisfaction, it also leads to legal problems and damage to the business.

Reasoning ability
ChatGPT has the ability to grasp semantic structures, extract entities and their values in sentences, as well as the relationships between entities. However, it is still limited in logical reasoning.
ChatGPT cannot be required to solve complex problems. Sometimes, even questions that require simple reasoning, ChatGPT can still give high wrong answers.

Business flow integration, on-premises deployment & Security and privacy issues
Currently, ChatGPT cannot be directly integrated into enterprise information systems because the results are not easily converted into a structure suitable for performing computer operations. To effectively apply ChatGPT in business processes, it is necessary to combine it with other information technologies and AI.
In addition, ChatGPT also has some limitations such as high cost and slow response speed. In particular, if a business wants to deploy this system on its own infrastructure (on-premise), ChatGPT cannot meet the requirements because it only operates on OpenAI’s cloud platform. Although it can be deployed on-premise, ChatGPT also requires powerful infrastructure, high cost and specialized technicians to install and manage.
In addition, OpenAI requires access to almost all communication data between users and ChatGPT. This can cause concerns for businesses in ensuring the security and privacy of user information.
What are the advantages of FPT AI Chat compared to ChatGPT?
FPT AI Chat is an AI chatbot applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by FPT Smart Cloud on the FPT.AI artificial intelligence platform. Compared to ChatGPT, FPT AI Chat is customized to easily integrate with enterprise systems through APIs, allowing businesses to connect chatbots to popular messaging channels such as Livechat on websites, Facebook Messenger, Zalo, Viber, etc. Businesses only need to build a single chatbot and deploy it simultaneously on multiple channels.
In addition, with a powerful cloud platform, FPT AI Chat can also scale to serve thousands to millions of customers at the same time, while still ensuring stable performance. This is very important when businesses grow and need to support a large number of customers without interrupting service.
In particular, while ChatGPT focuses on general conversations, FPT AI Chat is designed to support specific activities such as sales and customer care. FPT AI’s chatbot also has the ability to automatically send information about promotions, manage conversations with customers according to their shopping journey, thereby helping businesses optimize marketing strategies and increase conversion rates.
FPT AI Chat also helps businesses save costs and optimize human resources by automatically processing simple and repetitive queries, reducing the workload for employees and saving up to 29% – 46% of salary funds. In addition, FPT AI Chat ensures the security of customer information and data, helping businesses feel secure when applying AI technology.
Below is a summary of other differences between FPT AI Chat and ChatGPT that you can refer to:

On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, announced her departure from the company. This event shocked the technology industry and raised many speculations about the future of the platform. Employees and the online community questioned whether ChatGPT would still maintain its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence, especially when competition is increasingly fierce.
Hopefully, through the above article, you have answered the question of what is ChatGPT and know how to create a free ChatGPT account. If you need detailed advice and customize an AI solution suitable for your business to optimize operations and increase customer interaction, contact us immediately via Hotline: 1900 638 399 or visit FPT.AI for the earliest support!