Thus Spake ChatGPT

It has been three years since the arrival of GPT-3,2 a neural-network-based large language model (LLM) that could generate polished, stylish text with ease. What followed was an intense race among tech giants like Google, OpenAI, and Meta to come up with larger and larger models, often trained using texts appearing anywhere on the Internet. While storming the AI research communities, all these were much outside the scope of usual public discourse. The advancement was evident, shortcomings were subtle. But the most drastic change that ChatGPT brought forth was the sensation among the non-researchers (or researchers far from language technology or artificial intelligence) and ordinary citizens.