One year of ChatGPT, fast fashion’s plan to go public and more trouble for Elon Musk
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On today’s Tech Bytes: apologies, profanity and accusations of blackmail. It’s just another week in the life of Elon Musk. Plus, ultra-fast-fashion retailer Shein confidentially files for an IPO and seems to be trying to bolster its image. But first, one year ago this week, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public for the first time. Within five days of its launch, ChatGPT already had one million users. From writing holiday menus to college essays to wedding vows, ChatGPT has been there. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter for The Information, for her take on the week’s tech news.
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| 0:00.0 | Chat GPT turns one, a look back at a year of transformation and oh so much drama. |
| 0:08.0 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Lily Dramale. It's Friday which means it's time for our week in review marketplace tech bites on the show today |
| 0:27.8 | apologies profanity and accusations of blackmail. It's just another week in the life of Elon Musk. Plus, ultra-fast fashion |
| 0:37.2 | retailer, she-in files confidentially for an IPO. How the brand is bolstering its own image in response to backlash over its labor practices. |
| 0:47.4 | But first, a year ago this week, Open AI released ChatGPT to the public. |
| 0:52.9 | Within five days, the Chatbot had a million users. |
| 0:56.4 | It now has 100 million weekly active users. |
| 1:00.0 | From holiday menus to college essays to wedding vows, |
| 1:03.2 | Chat GPT has been there. |
| 1:05.9 | Seriously, though, wedding vows, that is not cool. |
| 1:09.4 | An early criticism of Chat GPT |
| 1:11.5 | was its pesky habit of churning out inaccurate results. |
| 1:16.0 | Just how far has chat gp gp t come in a year? |
| 1:19.0 | Natasha Moscarenus of the information joined me to explain. |
| 1:22.8 | Part of the magic of ChatGPT is that it naturally will get better as time goes on. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm not going to sit here and pretend like it's still good at math or will not continue to have some sort of |
| 1:34.2 | inaccurate information when you ask it prompts and so I personally still use it |
| 1:39.2 | directionally but part of generative AI is that it can learn from itself. |
| 1:43.2 | And so you can actually tell it, hey, that was actually wrong. |
| 1:46.9 | Can you rewrite that and this time be more accurate or pull from this source? |
| 1:51.6 | And so I would say it has to technically be better than when it first |
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