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Inside the launch — and future — of ChatGPT


“It couldn’t even do arithmetic.”

As winter descended on San Francisco in late 2022, OpenAI quietly pushed a new service dubbed ChatGPT live with a blog post and a single tweet from CEO Sam Altman. Despite early concerns about chatbots being a dead end, The New York Times has reported that other team members worried competitors would beat OpenAI to market with a fresh wave of bots. Top researcher Jan Leike, who played a crucial role in refining ChatGPT’s conversational abilities and ensuring its outputs aligned with user expectations, quit this year to join Anthropic after claiming that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products” at OpenAI.

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