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The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT - The Atlantic

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This story is part of a series marking ChatGPT’s third anniversary. Read Ian Bogost on how ChatGPT broke reality, Lila Shroff on the people who can no longer make decisions without ChatGPT’s input, or browse more AI coverage from The Atlantic. 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. And people sure did use it—more than 1 million of them in the first five days. ChatGPT grew faster than any other consumer app in history. Today, it has 800 million weekly users. Numbers matter, but what is undeniable is that ChatGPT’s success has quickly rewired parts of our society and econo

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 10:14 This story is part of a series marking ChatGPT’s third anniversary. Read Ian Bogost on how ChatGPT broke reality , Lila Shroff on the people who can no longer make decisions without ChatGPT’s input, or browse more AI coverage from The Atlantic . O n 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

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