ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, by San Francisco–based OpenAI, the creator of DALL·E 2 and Whisper AI. The service was launched as initially free to the public, with plans to monetize the service later. By December 4, 2022, ChatGPT already had over one million users. In January 2023, ChatGPT reached over 100 million users, making it the fastest growing consumer application to date. CNBC wrote on December 15, 2022, that the service “still goes down from time to time”. In addition, the free service is throttled. During periods the service was up, response latency was typically better than five seconds in January 2023. The service works best in English, but is also able to function in some other languages, to varying degrees of success. Unlike some other recent high-profile advances in AI, as of December 2022, there is no sign of an official peer-reviewed technical paper about ChatGPT.
According to OpenAI guest researcher Scott Aaronson, OpenAI is working on a tool to attempt to digitally watermark its text generation systems to combat bad actors using their services for academic plagiarism or spam. The company warns that this tool, called “AI classifier for indicating AI-written text”, will “likely yield a lot of false positives and negatives, sometimes with great confidence.” An example cited in The Atlantic magazine showed that “when given the first lines of the Book of Genesis, the software concluded that it was likely to be AI-generated.”
The New York Times reported in December 2022 that it has been “rumored” that the next version of the AI, GPT-4, will be launched sometime in 2023. In February 2023, OpenAI began accepting registrations from United States customers for a premium service, ChatGPT Plus, to cost $20 a month. OpenAI is planning to release a ChatGPT Professional plan that would cost $42 per month.(wiki)
Post time: Feb-21-2023