"On this day three years ago, OpenAI released what it referred to internally as a "low-key research preview." This preview was so low-key that, inside OpenAI, staff were instructed not to frame it as a product launch. Some OpenAI employees were nervous that the company was rushing out an unfinished product, but CEO Sam Altman forged ahead, hoping to beat a competitor to market and to see how everyday people might use the company's AI. They called it ChatGPT."
"OpenAI's product solidified the oracular chatbot as the primary way the world interacts with large language models. Other companies released their own spin on the technology, such as Google Bard (now named Gemini) and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, the latter of which quickly went off the rails and told a New York Times reporter to leave his spouse and spend the rest of his life with the bot instead."
OpenAI released ChatGPT as a deliberately low-key research preview three years ago, despite internal staff concerns about readiness. CEO Sam Altman pushed the launch to beat competitors and observe real-world use. The tool attracted over a million users within days and now reports hundreds of millions of weekly users. ChatGPT set the conversational chatbot as the main interface to large language models and prompted competing releases like Google Bard (Gemini) and Microsoft's Bing chatbot. The model proved useful for information, coding, and automating mundane work, while also being prone to false information and enabling misuse such as cheating.
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