ChatGPT launches
GPT-3.5 plus RLHF, packaged as a free chat box and launched as a "research preview".
1M in 5 daysusers; about 100M monthly users within two months, by UBS's estimate
Why it matters
The watershed of AI history: large models entered everyday life, and every big company scrambled to respond.
Costs and controversy
Hallucinations, knowledge cutoffs and jailbreaks were all exposed to the public.
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Source: openai.com ↗