How ChatGPT became a world sensation and kicked off an AI arms race

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Two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly 5 million visits a day. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SAN FRANCISCO – One day in mid-November, workers at OpenAI got an unexpected assignment: Release a chatbot, fast.

After months of testing and fine-tuning, GPT-4 was nearly ready. The plan was to release the model in early 2023, along with a few chatbots that would allow users to try it for themselves, according to three people with knowledge of the inner workings of OpenAI. It has also caused controversy. Users have complained that ChatGPT is prone to giving biased or incorrect answers. Some AI researchers have accused OpenAI of recklessness. And school districts around the United States, including New York City’s, have banned ChatGPT to try to prevent a flood of AI-generated homework.Yet, little has been said about ChatGPT’s origins, or the strategy behind it.

The growth has brought challenges. ChatGPT has had frequent outages as it runs out of processing power, and users have found ways around some of the bot’s safety features.The hype surrounding ChatGPT has also annoyed some rivals at bigger tech firms, who have pointed out that its underlying technology isn’t, strictly speaking, all that new.

Despite its limitations, ChatGPT’s success has vaulted OpenAI into the ranks of Silicon Valley power players. The company recently reached a US$10 billion deal with Microsoft, which plans to incorporate the startup’s technology into its Bing search engine and other products. Google declared a “code red” in response to ChatGPT, fast-tracking many of its own AI products in an attempt to catch up.

To allay these fears, OpenAI outfitted DALL-E 2 with numerous safeguards and blocked certain words and phrases, such as those related to graphic violence or nudity. It also taught the bot to neutralise certain biases in its training data – such as making sure that when a user asked for a photo of a CEO, the results included images of women.

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