ChatGPT – Its Origins and Ubiquitous Presence

ChatGPT, a web app developed by San Francisco-based firm OpenAI, has taken the world by storm. It is, by some estimates, the fastest-growing internet service ever, reaching 100 million users in just two months after its launch in November 2020. The chatbot has now been built into Office software and the Bing search engine via OpenAI’s $10 billion partnership deal with Microsoft. Google is also fast-tracking the rollout of its own chatbot, LaMDA, in response to ChatGPT’s breakthrough success. Language models such as ChatGPT are neural networks trained on vast amounts of text to make sense of sequences of letters and words, using components such as transformers and LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) networks to handle longer passages of speech. OpenAI sees these models as key to developing multi-skilled, general-purpose AI. In a series of iterations, GPT-3 has impressed the industry and created buzz with its human-like text generation capabilities.