And at release ChatGPT was meant as a marketing gimmick. A fun way to interact with a slightly finetuned version of GPT3.5 to showcase how good their models had become.
If anything it's remarkable how much they leaned into this success, building an iOS and Android app, speeding up the models, adding a premium plan, lots of new features, and eventually deprecating their text-completion mode and going all in on chat as the interaction mode for their LLMs.
If anything it's remarkable how much they leaned into this success, building an iOS and Android app, speeding up the models, adding a premium plan, lots of new features, and eventually deprecating their text-completion mode and going all in on chat as the interaction mode for their LLMs.