Contemporary · North America · Technology
2022
ChatGPT goes public
November 30, 2022
OpenAI quietly opened a chat interface to its language model and within five days it had a million users. Within two months it had a hundred million, the fastest consumer technology adoption in history. Suddenly anyone could ask a machine to write a poem, a memo, or a lie. The AI age began in conversation.
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