Many chatbots have come and gone since the 1960s, some without much fanfare. But OpenAI’s ChatGPT — the conversational interface that OpenAI put on its GPT-3.5 large language model — hit one million users in only five days in December 2022 and its release is already being heralded as a watershed moment for technology. It’s taken over the internet and the media in the weeks since and has propelled generative AI into the public consciousness (which we at Jasper are thankful for).
I was curious about what makes this specific chatbot such a massive success compared to everything that came before it. So I asked Suhail Nimji, Jasper’s VP of business development, and Jeremy Crane, Jasper’s VP of product.
In short, they said: the fact that Chat GPT is a powerful, multi-faceted LLM built on a chat interface, which we have a strong societal preconditioning to use based on decades of interactions with chatbots and conversation-based messaging systems. All this followed by GPT’s…