What to know about OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT

2/6/23
 
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from The Washington Post,
2/6/23:

The viral chatbot’s creator is rocketing into the mainstream.

A popular tool that can respond to questions in eerily human ways, called ChatGPT, has captured the internet’s attention as people use it write song lyrics, essays, TV episodes and more. ChatGPT is “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, which is essentially software that’s as smart as humans.

Now, OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot, is rocketing into the mainstream. Microsoft is reportedly investing up to $10 billion in the company, hoping it can use ChatGPT to resuscitate its search engine, Bing, and improve products in its Microsoft Office suite.

But OpenAI faces steep challenges, notably fixing its products’ glaring issues with accuracy, bias and harm.

Here’s everything you need to know about OpenAI.

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