You go to YouTube, and you'll see people talking about ChatGPT. You go to Facebook, and you'll see posts about the very same chatbot. From memes to YouTubers creating content about it, ChatGPT has, indeed, become viral on the internet. ChatGPT even has a subreddit with 476k members.
However, the people at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, are scratching their heads about the virality of their recent product.
John Schulman, the company cofounder, expected that ChatGPT would gain a following. He wasn't expecting it would "reach this level of mainstream popularity."
Company CEO Sam Altman even described the software as a "terrible product."
OpenAI's policy researcher, however, may be correct in his observation. "We work on these models so much, we forget how surprising they can be for the outside world sometimes," he said. My guess is since they were the ones who developed the chatbot, they are no longer amazed by its capabilities. Meanwhile, we, who are not always exposed to advanced AI like this, find ChatGPT awesome.
Despite ChatGPT's popularity, OpenAI keeps an eye on how people use the program to prevent unpleasant safety issues.
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