The ChatGPT AI is causing a stir, even going so far as to shake Google. Analysts at Swiss bank UBS believe it’s also the fastest-growing consumer app in history.
ChatGPT had 100 million active users in January, following its launch two months ago in late November, the bank notes. And it got a million users in just one week.
As Reuters notes, ChatGPT’s growth is much faster than the nine months it took TikTok to reach 100 million users, and the two and a half years it took Instagram to do so. In a much earlier era of the web, Google and Facebook took about five years each to reach 100 million users.
Chase between Microsoft and Google
When asked, however, ChatGPT disagrees with its “application” label. He claims that it is actually from a machine learning model. Specifically, we asked him, “Is ChatGPT the fastest growing app in history?” To which the AI replied, “No, OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model, which powers ChatGPT, is not an application, it’s a machine learning model designed to generate text from human type from the data provided to it. GPT-3 is widely recognized as one of the most important and advanced language models to date, but it is not an application and has not been measured in terms of user growth. »
Microsoft, which made a big investment in OpenAI last month, has started integrating GPT-3 into its products. GPT-3.5, for example, is the basis for several smart wrap-up features in Microsoft 365’s new Teams Premium add-on.
Microsoft also launched the Azure OpenAI service to give developers access to GPT-3.5, DALL·E 2, the AI that generates images from casual descriptions, and Codex, the service’s GPT-3 base. Copilot AI pair programming tool from GitHub.
OpenAI last week launched a subscription service called ChatGPT Plus for those who want to use the tool even when it reaches capacity in the free version. This paid service is available in the United States for 20 dollars per month.
Google is said to be adapting at full speed to face potential competition from ChatGPT in the field of Internet search. The company is currently testing a chatbot called Apprentice Bard, which has similar capabilities but is integrated with Google Search. Microsoft, meanwhile, plans to use ChatGPT to improve Bing.
Yann LeCun creaks
However, Yann LeCun, head of AI at Meta, recently remarked that ChatGPT’s underlying techniques were “not particularly innovative”, since they rely heavily on Transformer technology developed by Google.
“I am not criticizing the work of OpenAI or its claims. I am trying to correct a public and media perception that considers ChatGPT to be an incredibly new, innovative and unique technological breakthrough, ahead of all others,” he says.
Meta and Google also developed chatbots, but did not introduce them as OpenAI did with ChatGPT. On this graph featuring the AI research results posted on Twitter by the head of Meta, the caption reads: “Data on intellectual contribution to AI from various research organizations. Some of these organizations release knowledge and open source code for the world to use. Others just eat them. »
Source: ZDNet.com