Discover interesting facts that tell the story of ChatGPT, the OpenAI chatbot celebrating one year since its launch
ChatGPT celebrates its one year anniversary on November 30th. In one year, OpenAI’s AI chatbot has had a profound impact on the technology industry and society, with rapid public adoption and diverse implications for human activities.
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To tell this story a little, the Canaltech lists the key moments in the development and launch of this tool.
15 interesting facts about ChatGPT
Discover interesting facts that tell the story of ChatGPT:
1. Where were you born?
Developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI was founded as a non-profit organization in December 2015 by a group of researchers and investors that included Sam Altmann, Elon MuskGreg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Jessica Livingston and co-founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffmann. The project involved investments from companies such as Amazon WebServices and Infosys and had an initial investment of over $1 billion.
2. Who came first
Before ChatGPT, OpenAI launched other products focused on AI development: OpenAI Gym was used for reinforcement learning research, while Universe was a platform for training AI in games.
3. Microsoft investments
A Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the year the organization began having a for-profit branch. The investment granted Redmond Big Tech exclusivity to OpenAI products. In 2023, Microsoft has expanded its investment in the company.
4. When was ChatGPT launched?
The company has started working on training large-scale linguistic model (LLM) for ChatGPT in 2018. chatbot was launched on November 30, 2022 with a name that refers to the model on which it was built, the GPT-3.5.
5. After all, what is GPT?
GPT is the acronym for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer” (or Pre-Trained Generative Transformer, in Portuguese). GPT uses a neural network architecture with natural language processing capabilities. The main feature of GPT is its prior training on a large textual database, with which the model learns to predict words (or tokens) for each context.
6. How is the model trained?
To train the model e serve as the information base for ChatGPTSources such as Wikipedia, books, academic articles and the entire immensity of web content have been used, including social media posts and interviews that help AI improve its communication capabilities with humans and in different languages.
7. AI doesn’t understand the meaning
ChatGPT does not understand the texts it produces. The AI-generated content is formed by a ratio of probabilities and word associations within each context – called “autoregressive generation” – and based on the databases on which it was trained. It is for this reason that the tool may have errors and incorrect information.
8. AI hallucinations
Situations in which the AI makes factual errors or simply generates gibberish are called “hallucinations.” They happen due to incorrect data used in training (and the Internet is a warehouse of fake news) or even due to the model’s difficulty in distinguishing reality and fiction. After all, AI can process language, but not understand its meaning.

9. Model with limited knowledge
At the time of ChatGPT’s launch, the language model did not have real-time access to websites and had limited knowledge of events that occurred after September 2021. This functionality changed with GPT-4, released in March 2023 initially for ChatGPT Plusthe paid version of the chatbot.
10. Operational cost
In April 2023, a technology industry analyst estimated that the ChatGPT is expected to cost more than $700,000 per day to operate. The estimate is based on the computing capacity needed to meet worldwide usage demand. According to the expert, spending on servers accounts for the majority of AI costs.
11. Viral success
ChatGPT was a viral hit from the start. In just five days since launch, the tool has reached the one million user mark. In January 2023 the chatbot reached 57 million people and in February it exceeded 100 million – a record adoption in the history of the technology industry. Currently, around 25 million people use AI every day.
12. Historic moment
The success of ChatGPT represents a historic moment for AI technologies, with increased adoption by the general public and applications in different market segments. In February 2023, the co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said the rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT will be as significant as the emergence of the Internet or the evolution of personal computers.
13. Repercussions on the market and society
OpenAI’s chatbot has attracted enthusiasm from other companies, such as Googlein the development of its products Generative AI. At the same time, the tool has caused a stir in society about its possible uses and how to do it replace human activities.
14. Implications for education
A concern about widespread access to ChatGPT It also extends to education, with students using the chatbot to generate school assignments. Some institutions around the world have banned the use of the tool. This discussion raised the need to create it means identifying the texts produced by artificial intelligence.
15. Market value
The success of ChatGPT has doubled OpenAI’s market value: the company was valued at $14 billion in 2021, now worth $29 billion. In November 2023 the company went through a turbulent time with the firing of CEO Sam Altman by the board of directorsjust to be he returned to office five days later.
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