“Last November 30, we quietly put an early version of ChatGPT online for research purposes. And it worked pretty well,” said Sam Altman, the company’s CEO.
“Now we have about 100 million active users every week,” said the young leader, 38, from a stage in San Francisco, during a conference broadcast online.
The unprecedented success of ChatGPT and concerns about generative AI have put Altman in the spotlight in 2023, from parliamentary hearings to interviews with heads of state.
This Monday he reiterated his confidence that AI will be able to provide emancipatory capabilities to everyone “on a scale we have never seen.”
“We will be able to do more, create more and have more,” he said. “As (artificial) intelligence is integrated everywhere, we will all have superpowers on demand.”
Chatbot creation
With Monday’s launch, “GPT” users will now be able to create custom chatbots, no coding required. “For example, GPTs can help you learn the rules of a board game or teach your children math.”
These chatbots are based on language models from OpenAI (the core technology of generative AI) and instructions and documents added by the chatbot creator (like the rules of a game).
Considered by many a technological revolution comparable to the arrival of the Internet, popularized especially by ChatGPT, generative AI makes it possible to produce texts, images and sounds through a simple request in everyday language.
For many analysts, it will allow the creation of personalized AI agents that assist humans in their personal and professional lives.