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OpenAI never wanted to build a chatbot.
As an early beta tester for OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, I can vouch for the fact that the company was caught totally off guard by ChatGPT’s runaway success.
An email that OpenAI sent me on November 28, 2022 — just two days before ChatGPT came to market and kicked off a trillion-dollar, multiyear, economy-distending AI scramble — didn’t even mention the new interface.
Rather, it bragged about the company’s then-revolutionary “DaVinci” model and how it could “deliver clearer, more engaging, and more compelling content” and allow developers to “take on tasks that would have previously been too difficult to achieve.”
From the breathless tone of the email, it was clear that OpenAI had bigger ambitions than creating a text-based tool to help you argue with your insurance company or write KPop Demon Hunters fanfics.
As Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product, admitted last month, the company “got a little…
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