On the first day of the year, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s intelligent chat robot, celebrates a year since its launch.
First Launch
A year ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a “quiet research preview,” as a response to fierce competition from the AI company Anthropic. The aim was to gather more data on how people use and interact with generative AI to help develop future OpenAI models.
Product Evolution
In the months following its launch, ChatGPT received paid tiers with additional features, including a business-oriented plan. OpenAI also upgraded ChatGPT with web search capabilities, document analysis, and image generation (via DALL-E 3). Utilizing internally developed speech recognition, voice generation, and text and image understanding models, OpenAI gave ChatGPT the ability to “hear,” “speak,” and “see” and take actions.
Impact of ChatGPT
ChatGPT has become the number one priority at OpenAI – not just a standalone product but a development platform to build upon. As is common in a competitive market, it has also shifted the focus of other companies and AI research labs.
Evolution of Competition
Google rushed to respond to ChatGPT, eventually launching Bard, a chat robot somewhat similar to ChatGPT, in February. Many competitors and other derivatives of ChatGPT have hit the market since then, the latest being Amazon Q, a business-oriented chat robot. DeepMind, one of Google’s leading research labs, is expected to launch a next-generation chat robot called Gemini before the end of the year.
Impact of ChatGPT on User Experience
According to Stella Biderman, an AI researcher at Booz Allen Hamilton and a member of the open research group EleutherAI, she does not view ChatGPT as a breakthrough in AI by itself. However, she states that ChatGPT was a real breakthrough in user experience – where generative AI has become mainstream.
Popularity of ChatGPT
ChatGPT still garners a lot of attention – at least if the statistics from external sources are any indication.
Uses of ChatGPT
ChatGPT’s skills go beyond just conversation, as it can complete and correct code, compose music and articles, answer exam questions, generate business ideas, write poetry and song lyrics, translate and summarize texts, and even mimic a computer running Linux.
Potential Limitations
Despite its remarkable capabilities, ChatGPT is not entirely perfect due to the way it was developed and trained. Sometimes, ChatGPT fabricates answers that sound reasonable but are factually incorrect. ChatGPT can also exhibit bias in its responses, answering in overtly sexual and racist ways, or reiterating parts of the data it was trained on.
The Future of ChatGPT
Interestingly, some catastrophic predictions about ChatGPT have not come to fruition. These concerns have alarmed legislators in Europe, who have imposed safety assessments on any product using generative AI systems like ChatGPT. More than 20,000 people, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, signed an open letter calling for an immediate halt to widespread AI experiments like ChatGPT.
The Future of ChatGPT with GPTs
With the launch of GPTs, OpenAI’s tool for building customized conversational AI systems capable of taking actions based on OpenAI models, including those that support ChatGPT, ChatGPT could become a gateway to a broader system of AI-powered chatbots rather than the ultimate solution.
With GPTs, users can train the model on a set of recipes, for example, so that it can answer questions about the ingredients of a specific recipe. Or it can give the model its own company codes so that developers can check their style or create codes according to best practices.
Offers
GPTs offer a level of customization that far exceeds what ChatGPT provides today, and a surge in creativity is expected as GPTs flood the market. ChatGPT may not be as visible as it once was, but it will not disappear – rather, it will adapt and evolve, undoubtedly in ways that even its creators cannot predict.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/30/one-year-later-chatgpt-is-still-alive-and-kicking/
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