ChatGPT: The AI bot taking the tech world by storm

On Wednesday the Chartr office party was in full swing, but instead of heading for drinks -- as originally planned -- we found ourselves still in the office, writing increasingly funny prompts into ChatGPT, a chatbot from OpenAI. Built on the architecture of GPT-3, with some 175 billion parameters, the key innovation of ChatGPT relative to other AI breakthroughs is that it's super easy to interact with. "Tell me a joke", "write a recipe for pecan pie in the style of a pirate", "explain long division to a ten-year-old"... ChatGPT has a -- pretty convincing -- response for all. That functionality has gone viral, with OpenAI reporting that ChatGPT had hit 1 million users in just 5 days. Searches for ChatGPT rocketed, surpassing those for "lensa", another AI app making waves this week, but ChatGPT is undoubtedly the much, much bigger story.