OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that has gone viral, has crossed one million users in less than a week since it was officially made available to the public. ChatGPT was made available for public testing last month, Open CEO Sam Altman confirmed this via a tweet. His post also attracted questions on whether the company plans to keep ChatGPT free forever, to which he replied that they “will have to monetize it somehow at some point,” and added that the computing costs of running this are “eye-watering”.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk also asked Altman what is the average cost per chat for OpenAI. Altman said this is “probably single-digits cents per chat; trying to figure out more precisely and also how we can optimise it.”
Interestingly Musk also tweeted about how Twitter’s database is used for training by OpenAI and that he has put a pause on this for now. According to him, OpenAI used to be an open-source and non-profit company which has changed and he “needs to understand more about governance structure & revenue plans going forward.”
ChatGPT is the OpenAI’s conversational chatbot which can talk back almost as another human being would; many are saying that ChatGPT could soon be writing the daily mundane emails, articles, code, how-to-guides and even college essays. Once a user signs up for ChatGPT, they can use the chatbot to have a conversation, and the expectation is that it will give reasonably intelligent answers in the form of an essay. Some have also used it to write fiction, though, in our experience, this is one of the limitations for now.