This document provides an introduction to ChatGPT, describing it as a large language model (LLM) trained on massive amounts of text using machine learning to predict text that follows a given prompt. It explains that ChatGPT is based on GPT-3, which was trained on 499 billion tokens from the web, books, and Wikipedia to predict the next word in a sequence. Finally, it outlines some risks of LLM's like absorbing biases and propagating information without considering truth or impact, and provides additional resources on the topic.