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Recommended reading
- How Large Language Models Will Transform Science, Society, and AI – Article summarizing the capabilities and limitations of the GPT-3 model, and its potential impact on society. By Alex Tamkin and Deep Ganguli, February 5, 2021.
- Generative AI: A Creative New World – A comprehensive examination of the generative AI industry, offering a historical perspective and in-depth analysis of the industry ecosystem. By Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and GPT-3, September 19, 2022.
- A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze – Article about the rise of generative AI, particularly the success of the Stable Diffusion image generator, and the associated controversies. New York Times, October 21, 2022.
- AI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush – Article about the growing hype and investment in generative AI startups, with various industries exploring its potential applications. Wired, October 27, 2022.
- ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution – An op-ed by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher. Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2023.
Milestones
- OpenAI API – Announcement of the OpenAI API for text-to-text general-purpose AI models based on GPT-3. OpenAI blog, June 11, 2020.
- GitHub Copilot – Announcement of Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. GitHub blog, June 29, 2021.
- DALL·E 2 – Announcement of the release of DALL·E 2, an advanced image generation system with improved resolution, expanded image creation capabilities, and various safety mitigations. OpenAI blog, April 6, 2022.
- Stable Diffusion Public Release – Announcement of the public release of Stable Diffusion, an AI-based image generation model trained on a broad internet scrape and licensed under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license. Stable Diffusion blog, 22 August, 2022.
- ChatGPT – Announcement of ChatGPT, a conversational model trained to answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. OpenAI blog, November 30, 2022.
- Bing Search – Microsoft announces a new version of its search engine Bing, powered by a next-generation OpenAI model. Microsoft blog, February 7, 2023.
- GPT-4 – Announcement of GPT-4, a large multimodal model. OpenAI blog, March 14, 2023.
- Sora – Presentation of Sora, a large video generation model. OpenAI, February 15, 2024.