ChatGPT Launches

What happened

OpenAI released ChatGPT, a conversational interface to a GPT-3.5 language model, fine-tuned with human feedback to follow instructions and answer follow-up questions in dialogue. Free and easy to use, it reached an estimated hundred million users within two months.

Why it matters

ChatGPT put powerful generative AI in front of the general public for the first time, touching off a worldwide boom in AI investment, adoption, and debate.

Sources

• OpenAI. Introducing ChatGPT · Primary source