Happy Birthday, ChatGPT!
You are one today. And what a first year you have had.
You’ve surprised everyone, even your maker.
You’re the fastest-growing consumer product in history, delighting a hundred million of us in sixty days.
You’ve made a case for first-mover advantage. A year on, OpenAI still has the best-performing model.
You’ve made the hideous acronym GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) part of the English language. Was this for shits and giggles or to annoy the French?
You’ve compressed estimates of the arrival of AGI down to 7.2 years. Some reckon it’s possible within 4 or 5.
You’ve not persuaded many in the scientific community that AGI is around the corner. So, while adherents have revised the priors, that view is far from universal.
You’ve behaved in…