In June 2023, hundreds of people attended a “ChatGPT-powered church service” at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Germany. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “fathers of AI”, voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence. ChatGPT also provided an outline of how human reviewers are trained to reduce inappropriate content and to attempt to provide political information without affiliating with any political position. GPT-5 was launched on August 7, 2025, and is publicly accessible through ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and via OpenAI’s API. Released in February 2025, GPT-4.5 was described by Altman as a “giant, expensive model”. In March 2023, a bug allowed some users to see the titles of other users’ conversations.
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- In my experience, the web version offers the fullest range of features available.
- OpenAI announced that it is letting users buy goods directly in ChatGPT through a feature called Instant Checkout.
- OpenAI supports limited, no-login access in many regions, so you can try ChatGPT instantly.
- It currently uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts.
- In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap in which women and scientists of color were asserted to be inferior to white male scientists.
- OpenAI has already gotten a glimpse of this future through its o1 model, and the results have been mixed.
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App support
The Pro launch coincided with the release of the o1 model, providing unlimited access to o1 and advanced voice mode. Users interact with ChatGPT through conversations which consist of text, audio, and image inputs and outputs. OpenAI collects data from ChatGPT users to further train and fine-tune its services.
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- Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “fathers of AI”, voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence.
- OpenAI announced the addition of product recommendations on ChatGPT when users implied shopping intent in their queries.
- The languages tested were Polish, French, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog, and Amharic.
- ChatGPT is powered by a large language model made up of neural networks trained on a massive amount of information from the internet, including Wikipedia articles and research papers.
- A 2023 study reported that GPT-4 obtained a better score than 99% of humans on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
- The paid version of ChatGPT also offers features like image and voice inputs and integrations with other OpenAI services like the image generator DALL-E.
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The company announced a slew of generative AI-powered features to counter OpenAI and Microsoft. In July, OpenAI released ChatGPT agent, an AI agent that can perform multi-step tasks. It is capable of writing software, answering codebase questions, running tests, and proposing pull requests. The languages tested were Polish, French, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog, and Amharic. For more common languages, AI translators Romibet like ChatGPT did better than Google Translate, while for “niche” languages (Amharic and Tagalog), Google Translate performed better. None of the tested services were a perfect replacement for a fluent human translator.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations.
- Your prompts (on Free, Plus and Pro plans) may be used to train the model unless you opt out in settings.
- The language models used in ChatGPT are specifically optimized for dialogue and were trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
- The Guardian questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT’s release “can be truly trusted” and called for government regulation.
- This tool allows a user to customize ChatGPT’s behavior for a specific use case.
- Users interact with ChatGPT through conversations which consist of text, audio, and image inputs and outputs.
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GPT-4 General Availability (July
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations. ChatGPT’s training data only covers a period up to the cut-off date, so it lacks knowledge of recent events. This tool allows a user to customize ChatGPT’s behavior for a specific use case.
OpenAI o1 Model Family Announcement (September
ChatGPT is becoming a default interface for how people interact with AI and even how they get information from the internet. ChatGPT faces ongoing legal challenges related to industry concerns regarding the ethics and the legality of data sourcing for AI training. “You can create systems that can fool people into thinking that this thing that you’re talking to is human,” Jaffri tells CNET. That’s one reason why it sometimes “hallucinates” or generates confident-sounding but incorrect information. It was trained on massive amounts of data from books and the internet — websites, Wikipedia, Reddit threads, news sites and much, much more.