ChatGPT hits 800 million weekly users as AI adoption reshapes global

Voters are expressing more optimism about artificial intelligence than they did two years ago, but many are still skeptical. However, tech companies are pushing forward with the latest artificial intelligence technology.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users. According to the platform, large language models or LLMs are used for a wide variety of tasks like business, education, software development and content creation.

Before many of the chatbots we know today, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed what is believed to be the first of its kind. Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA program made communication with a computer possible. He tested the technology on his assistant soon after it was developed.

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Joseph Weizenbaum, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed the ELIZA program, which is believed to be the first AI chatbot. (Wolfgang Kunz/ullstein bild via Getty Images / Getty Images)

“After two or three interchanges with the machine, she turned to me and said ‘would you mind leaving the room please?'” Weizenbaum said at the time.

A decade after his ELIZA report, Weizenbaum authored another paper, warning against giving machines the ability to make human choices. He would spend the rest of his life skeptical of artificial intelligence.

“Movies like ‘The Terminator’ have created a very dark dystopian version of what this could look like,” White House A.I. and Crypto Czar David Sacks said. “The version of the future of AI that I think is probably most accurate if you want to pop cultural reference, is ‘Star Trek: Enterprise.’ Think about the ship computer in that. You can talk to it. It can talk to you. It understands. It can perform tasks for you. But it doesn’t have a will of its own, it doesn’t have a mind of its own. It’s there to help the crew, and it needs to be supervised by humans.”

A McKinsey Global survey on A.I. asked participants representing companies around the world if they used artificial intelligence at work. Seventy-eight percent said their organizations used the technology in at least one business function.

White House A.I. and Crypto Czar David Sacks predicted that the future of artificial intelligence will be more like the AI seen in “Star Trek: Enterprise” than the evil robots of “The Terminator.” (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Now the technology is threatening some jobs, including the field that developed A.I.

“First, people just wrote code. Then there was the autocomplete era,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at a June Databricks conference. “Now we’re moving to what Andrej Karpathy has called vibe coding that has come to be associated with coding models, and Claude in particular, which is where you…