ChatGPT: 1st Anniversary Review
When ChatGPT celebrates its first birthday, the importance of its impact cannot be underestimated. Just two months after its launch, ChatGPT has attracted 100 million monthly active users. Fast forward a year and the number of users has skyrocketed to 200 million. It became the fastest-growing application in history and quickly evolved into a ubiquitous presence, transforming the abstraction of artificial intelligence into a reality in the daily lives of many people, or at least a topic that everyone talked about.
Since its public release in November 2022, ChatGPT has undergone substantial evolution. In the beginning, it only operated as a text generator and was limited to responses obtained from training data collected up to September 2021. Initially, it tended to make up information when it lacked answers, introducing a new term, "hallucinations," to discuss AI.
The latest ChatGPT training data has been updated to April 2023 and has more scaling capabilities. It can make use of Microsoft's Bing search engine and internet resources to get more up-to-date information. In addition, it has become a product platform that is able to integrate ** or documents into the search, and the mobile version can already be used through spoken conversations.
Tech race: Fight for AI dominance
In January 2022, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users. The sudden surge in interest in generative AI has taken major tech companies by surprise. In addition to ChatGPT, there are several notable generative AI models such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Google's Bard. Generative AI is reshaping the technology landscape. Tech giants dedicate all their resources to it as a key future technology infrastructure and shape the poetry of the AI revolution. However, the potentially significant challenge is a situation in which only a few players may dominate the field.
In the first half of 2023, venture capitalists invested almost five times more in generative AI companies than in the same period last year. Even excluding the $10 billion investment announced by Microsoft in January, venture capital funding is still up nearly 58% from the first half of 2022.
The expected economic impact is huge, and with PwC**, AI could boost the global economy by more than $15 trillion by 2030. In this new "AI arms race", the United States and China, as the largest economies, are at the forefront.
According to the 2023 AI Index report, the U.S. and China have been the focus of AI investment, with 524 new AI startups emerging in the U.S. in 2022, attracting an impressive $47 billion from non-** funding. At the same time, there is also a significant investment trend in China, with 160 new AI startups in 2022, each receiving an average of $71 million in investment. Many of these new startups are leveraging the ChatGPT API and building specific use case scenarios for users.
The impact of ChatGPT on individuals
On November 30, 2022, San Francisco-based OpenAI released ChatGPT, and some people immediately fell in love with it and began to try to do everything they could think of with it. Others are less enthusiastic or even indifferent. But what about now?A year later, what are people doing with ChatGPT – has the novelty worn off?
Some people immediately fell in love with it and started trying to do everything they could think of with it. Others are less enthusiastic – treat it with care, or even avoid it altogether. But what about now?A year later, what are people doing with ChatGPT – has the novelty worn off?
For the first time, AI is everywhere: not only on the mainstream, but also in people's daily work and life. Whether you're assigned to read a 200-page medical report, a YouTube**, or a new study on the potential development of AI use cases, ChatGPT can speed up the process. It can process large amounts of information and identify key points – providing you with a concise, easy-to-digest summary. Marketing content creation, language translation, writing proofreading, programming assistance, customer service, data analysis, personal assistants and schedule management, and even in our kitchen, help us decide what to eat for dinner.
It's not always so stunning. This tool is known to produce summaries that are longer than the original text – but this is where the user's skills as a prompt engineer come into play. Prompts like "make it shorter" or "just tell me the most important points" can cut out the redundant and help ChatGPT give you the core message.
Users must be vigilant and fact-check themselves. ChatGPT has been known to fabricate "facts" to fill in information gaps. ChatGPT also exhibits "hallucinations," an AI bot that has no shame or remorse for creating new "truths."
It is undeniable that there is still a threshold for learning Xi to learn GPT, but ChatGPT is growing at an astonishing rate and continues to surprise us.
What can we expect from large language models in 2024?
As the industry continues to focus on research and investment, 2024 will bring more major breakthroughs. For OpenAI, Project Q is the focus of attention. Project Q can solve certain math problems and is said to have higher reasoning skills. This could be a potential breakthrough in the field of artificial general intelligence (AGI). If language models expand their capabilities in the fields of mathematics and reasoning, they will reach a higher level of utility. Many experts, including Elon Musk, believe that "digital superintelligence" will emerge in the next five to ten years.
What are you going to do with generative AI in 2024?
Brother Tony.
December 1, 2023.