ChatGPT celebrates its two years of existence with the general public on Saturday, November 30.
His “father”, Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, introduced us to his baby two years ago, on November 30, 2022. A week later, there were already 1 million people to test its power. Today we have 250 million users around the world.
What’s completely crazy is that, for the general public, most of the time, artificial intelligence equals ChatGPT. However, OpenAI engineers are far from being the first, nor the only ones, to have worked on artificial intelligence for years. Today there are 110 competitors at ChatGPT. But in business, there is often a bonus for the first, the pioneer. And the result is already palpable at the financial level. Initially, OpenAI was valued at $29 billion, which is still huge. Two years later, the valuation rose to 160 billion. This is what we call a valuation explosion.
What is striking, two years later, is to see that ChatGPT and its competitors do not suffer from any dispute while the error rates range from 11% to 69%, which is obviously unacceptable for a company.
The other deception that we can see two years later is that the experts learnedly explained to us that artificial intelligence was going to find solutions for global warming. But for now, the only observation is that the chips, for example, used for AI, are energy-intensive. In one year they consume as much energy as a country like Guatemala or Lithuania.
