ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch
Thu 2 Feb 2023 20.46 GMT
ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, has reached 100 million users just two months after launching, according to analysts.
It had about 590m visits in January from 100 million unique visitors, according to analysis by data firm Similarweb. Analysts at investment bank UBS said the rate of growth was unprecedented for a consumer app.
“In 20 years following the internet space, we cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app,” UBS analysts wrote in the note, reported by Reuters.
By comparison it took TikTok about nine months after its global launch to reach 100 million users and Instagram more than two years, according to data from Sensor Tower, an app analysis firm.
ChatGPT can generate articles, essays, jokes, poetry and job applications in response to text prompts. OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft, made it available to the public for free in late November.
President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday openly gave a speech which was partially written by ChatGPT to the Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv.
Herzog said that both his opening and closing to the speech were written by ChatGPT, saying “the bots spun into action,” as a way of showing what he called are the amazing achievements of the cyber and hi-tech industries.
At the technological forefront
He said, “I am truly proud to be president of a country to be host of the innovative hi-tech industry. Israel is consistently at the forefront of technological advancement, Its achievements in cybersecurity, AI [artificial intelligence], and big data,” are tremendous.
“From developing cybersecurity technology to successful startups” Israel is having “a significant impact on the global stage,” said Herzog.
Further, he said, “not only are machines taking on tasks which once only humans could perform, they are performing tasks which humans could never dream could be done - pushing the boundaries of the imagination and of what is possible.”
