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Training Tips for Ships

Tip #44

Is it ‘Real’ or is it …

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We’ve all been hearing so incredibly much about ChatGPT - its abilities, limitations, potential, promise and risks. So, let’s talk about it as it relates to maritime training. hatGPT is an application developed by OpenAI audio training modules. The training content can be tailored that can generate human-like text. It uses deep to the speci? c needs of individual maritime workers, such learning algorithms to understand and generate as safety procedures for a particular type of vessel or in-

Ctext and can be ? ne-tuned to speci? c tasks such as formation about the proper operation of speci? c equipment. language translation, question answering, and text summari- Additionally, ChatGPT can be used to generate answers to zation. It can be used to generate a wide variety of text-based frequently asked questions and possibly even generate sim- content, including articles, stories, and instructional materials. ulations to test the workers’ understanding of the material

What does this mean for training content? ChatGPT could covered in the training.

potentially be used to generate training content for maritime There are many potential advantages to using ChatGPT to workers by using its natural language generation capabili- generate maritime training content. The ? rst is speed. Chat- ties to create written materials such as instructional manuals, GPT can quickly generate large amounts of training content, procedures, and quizzes. The model can also generate spo- allowing for ef? cient creation of training materials. Also, ken language by using text-to-speech technology to create ChatGPT can be ? ne-tuned to the speci? c needs of the mari- 10 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • February 2023

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