ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing services in recent times. As part of its first developer conference, OpenAI revealed that one hundred million people use ChatGPT every week.
While traffic has fallen in recent months, OpenAI’s AI chatbot It is still the favorite of many. Implementing a subscription model and launching an API allowed hundreds of thousands of people and companies to get involved in creating unique experiences with ChatGPT.
In the end, the investment has worked for the technology company. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated that There are more than two million developers who use the platformincluding 92% of Fortune 500 companies. The outlook is positive and proof of this is the announcement of a feature in which you can design your own chatbots.
During the keynote at Dev Day, Altman introduced GPTs, a unique feature in which anyone can produce a custom version of ChatGPT. This feature allows chatbots to be tailored to specific needs, so you can program one to perform web searches, inform you about things on your calendar, generate images with DALL-E, and more.
Unlike other options, GPTs do not require prior experience as a programmer. You just need to open a chat and indicate the tasks you require and artificial intelligence will do the rest. Once generated, custom ChatGPTs can be shared or even monetized through the online store.
GPTs will also be available for companies, where they will take advantage of artificial intelligence to solve internal tasks. OpenAI confirmed that the chats will remain private, as the company will not have access to them.
ChatGPT has a long way to go
Following its debut in December 2022, ChatGPT became an indispensable tool for millions of people. The possibility of making any query, writing summaries or solving tasks caused the chatbot to explode in popularity. According to data from Similarweb, ChatGPT had 13 million active users every day in January 2023, a phenomenon that had not been seen in the last two decades.
The potential was so high that Microsoft made a multi-million dollar investment to integrate the technology into Bing and the rest of its services. The technology giant anticipated that artificial intelligence would forever change the way we search for things on the Internet. Google was not far behind and did the same with Bard, followed by Meta and the rest of the Chinese companies.
In all this time, OpenAI has managed to steer the ship. It didn’t take long for the company to launch GPT Plus, a paid version that offered priority consultations and access to a more advanced model than the free version. In March 2023, it opened the doors to its API so that everyone could use ChatGPT in their applications, while working on polishing GPT-4 and other language models.
The road has not been easy, since popularity has brought million-dollar demands and fear of a catastrophic scenario. OpenAI claims that it has implemented security mechanisms to prevent ChatGPT from getting out of control. Likewise, he announced that will defend its clients against possible accusations of violating copyright.
With the regulation of artificial intelligence in its initial stages, it is risky to make predictions about the future of this technology. If one thing is certain, it is that in the future we will see ChatGPT as a boring toy, according to Sam Altman himself.