OpenAI's chatbot, launched on 30 November 2022 and built on its GPT language models. It became the fastest-growing consumer app of its time and brought generative AI into daily life.
Well, in essence, ChatGPT is a big zip of the internet. It takes 300 billion tokens from the Common Crawl and all these other websites that have been scraped, and it reduces them to about 150 million weights, I think GPT-3 has, which is a huge shrinkage, many orders of magnitude smaller.
Jon Ippolito, Preserving Digital Art: Regina Harsanyi, Jon Ippolito
Rather than scripting out each question ourselves and trying to figure out which questions to ask, we basically described the situation to ChatGPT: “You are replacing their voice in their head. Lead them through an onboarding process so that you can be as efficient and helpful as possible.”
Lauren Lee McCarthy, Lauren Lee McCarthy on Software Values