What is the AI bot ChatGPT?ChatGPT is a prototype dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language and generating impressively detailed human-like written text.It is the latest evolution of the GPT – or Generative Pre-Trained Transformer – family of text-generating AIs.Who made it?The new AI is the latest chatbot from the Elon Musk-founded independent research body OpenAI foundation.Musk co-founded the startup with other Silicon Valley investors including technology venture capitalist Sam Altman in late 2015, saying that the research centre would “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity” according to a blog post at the time.