ChatGPT is being deified too much, the founder himself is shocked because it is so successful, admitting ‘will not be able to overthrow Google’

ChatGPT was originally a buggy product of OpenAI, launched as a workaround and no one thought it would succeed.

According to The Verge, CEO Sam Altman of OpenAI, the birthplace of ChatGPT, said that users should not expect too much from this artificial intelligence and it will not replace Google.

Even when answering Fortune, OpenAI’s leadership team said they were shocked by the success of a product that was said to be incomplete and no one thought it would resonate like that.

Don’t expect too much

“I think when someone talks about how a new technology will end a large corporation, they are usually wrong. People seem to forget that these corporations also have a counterattack with their vast resources. They are smart, highly competitive businesses. I think an artificial intelligence search engine will be born at some point in the future, but it won’t be as divine as people think in the near future,” CEO Altman replied. asked if ChatGPT could usurp Google.

Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT can communicate with humans as an entity and give unexpected answers thanks to their ability to update data and make inferences based on user requests. This is very different from the type of links that come up when searching on Google.

Many people even think that ChatGPT is likely to replace many jobs in the future with the speed of development and improvement. A series of experiments show that ChatGPT can take the MBA master’s exam, write theses for students, give lectures to students, type code, design, synthesize newspapers… with quite high accuracy.

However, the father of ChatGPT said that it was still too early to deify artificial intelligence when the chatbot itself had many bugs at first and developers only accepted to release it when forced into the dead end. .

“I usually use ChatGPT to learn something new rather than spend time reading books,” CEO Altman said when asked what he usually does with his tech kid.

This director also said that although ChatGPT reached 1 million users in less than a week of launch and is booming, it is too early to talk about profitability.

“OpenAI hasn’t made a lot of money yet, it’s too early to talk about this,” CEO Altman said.

Responding to the issue of ChatGPT being used to plagiarize essays, CEO Altman said that they are trying to build a preventive measure like GPT detection technology to prevent this.

ChatGPT is developed based on GPT 3.5 technology, an upgraded version of GPT 3 released in 2020 and has been used by many platforms.

Faulty product

Fortune reports that OpenAI management was shocked when their chatbot product was so successful. In an interview published by Fortune, OpenAI executives said they weren’t sure what to expect from the product when it launched in November 2022.

“I have to admit I wondered if this would work,” OpenAI co-founder and now president Greg Brockman told Fortune.

“This was definitely a surprise to us,” admits OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati.

Brockman said the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 was a temporary move after the company had many failures in developing an artificial intelligence chatbot, forcing the company to release a product. errors that no one thought would succeed.

Initially, ChatGPT testers didn’t know what to ask this chatbot because OpenAI failed to develop a specialized chatbot in a certain field, so they created a “half-season” product.

Surprisingly, this semi-seasonal product attracted more than 1 million users within the first 5 days of its launch, creating a worldwide fever.

However, CEO Altman also warned that artificial intelligence technology with chatbots like ChatGPT can be used for bad purposes such as plagiarism, fraud, cyberattacks, etc. Currently, this chatbot has been banned from use. at all the schools in New York City after a professor discovered students were using ChatGPT for dissertations.

Despite those worries, Microsoft, the main partner of OpenAI when it invested $ 1 billion in 2019, is considering pouring more money into this startup to build a powerful Bing search engine to compete with Google. .

*Source: The Verge, Fortune