Big Tech in charge as ChatGPT turns one

ChatGPT became the fastest adopted app in history (since taken over by Meta's Threads) as users marvelled at the generation of poems, recipes – or whatever the Internet could muster – in just seconds. — AFP

WASHINGTON: A year after the history-making release of ChatGPT, the AI revolution is here, but the recent boardroom crisis at OpenAI, the super app’s company, has erased any doubt that Big Tech is in charge.

In some ways, the discreet reveal of ChatGPT on Nov 30 last year was the revenge of the geeks, the unsung researchers and engineers who have been quietly building generative AI behind the scenes.