ChatGPT: OpenAI didn’t quite believe in the tool, says co-founder

There were 1 million active users in just five days and 100 million in two months. These are the impressive numbers of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool from OpenAI company. However, despite being a real success and becoming the fastest growing app in the history of the internet, The feature almost didn’t see the light of day because his own creator company didn’t see much potential in it..

The person who revealed the surprising information was in an interview with Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI. forbes. said, at first, no one was very excited about ChatGPT and many company employees felt that the tool had little use or future.. “None of us were passionate about the project. None of us thought, ‘This is really useful,'” he said.

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At first, ChatGPT was pushed aside by OpenAI just as Stable Diffusion (an AI tool that creates text-based images) was beginning to take off. During this period, OpenAI began working on the tool so that it could offer more significant advances. What happened and finally the chatbot went public in November 2022.

Since then, smart chat has become a rage among Internet users, used for different purposes and spawning a variety of discussions and ideas. What, of course, surprised the team behind ChatGPT who didn’t have high hopes for the tool.

This time in another interview luckBrockman went so far as to say that launching ChatGPT is almost like “whatever God wills”. According to the executive, the decision to reveal the source to the world was a final card after a series of internal challenges the app went through.