Since its introduction late in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. The internet sensation became the fastest-growing app in history, far surpassing the adoption rates of chart-topping social media giants like Instagram and TikTok.
Within the first two months, ChatGPT amassed 100 million monthly active users. By comparison, it took Instagram two and a half years to achieve the same numbers. TikTok took nine months to get to 100 million.
ChatGPT’s popularity continues to skyrocket, as even more people discover its vast capabilities. The user-friendly AI bot can converse in natural language, answer encyclopedia-type questions, write essays and blogs, help you brainstorm, write code, make up a poem on the fly—the possibilities are virtually endless.
Users across all demographics, from students to professionals, are finding new ways to leverage ChatGPT every day to save time and money.
But users aren’t the only ones who are dazzled by the AI bot’s success. ChatGPT has received effusive praise from many top tech leaders. Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s original founders, recently tweeted, “ChatGPT is scary good.” And Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang hailed it as it “one of the greatest things ever created in the computing industry.”
With millions of fans raving about ChatGPT’s extraordinary capabilities and amazing potential, it’s hard to believe the AI bot could draw detractors. But not everyone is impressed.
Meta recently surfaced as one of ChatGPT’s most notable critics. Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun panned the app, brushing it off it as “not particularly innovative” and “nothing revolutionary.”
Well, at DeepMake, we strongly disagree.
Don’t confuse technical innovation with usability innovation
Why would a tech giant like Meta dismiss a revolutionary advancement like ChatGPT? The reason is simple: to them, innovation means technological improvement. They don’t see improved usability as innovation.
And they couldn’t be more wrong.
While technology often plays a key role in innovation, technology alone doesn’t always tell the whole story. Admittedly, there’s nothing especially groundbreaking about the technology behind ChatGPT. Many companies and research labs have developed similar AI systems in the past. Some of them are even built on the same underlying technology ChatGPT uses.
ChatSonic, GPT-3 Playground, Jasper, and YouChat are just a few examples of AI chatbots that leverage OpenAI’s GPT-3. Many other large language models besides GPT-3 can be used to generate text, including GPT-J by EleutherAI, Jurassic-1 by AI21 Labs, Chinchilla by DeepMind, and TextSynth.Some ChatGPT alternatives are more powerful than ChatGPT, and others offer better features—for instance, ChatSonic has voice commands and responses. But none has come close to matching ChatGPT’s popularity.
Why? Because ChatGPT’s real innovation is in its usability.
Sometimes a technical innovation can be huge. But if the technology is relatively arcane, the advancement will remain unknown to the public. Only the few experts who understand what it is will ever use it.
For a technical innovation to gain mass appeal, it has to meet to certain criteria. Above all, it needs to be practical, well-understood, and easy to use. Consider the iPhone, one of the most popular products of all time. People love its sleek design, quality features, and intuitive interface. The iPhone hits all the right notes. It gives consumers more of what they want most: usability.
And now, just like Apple made the iPhone a runaway success, OpenAI has come along and done the same with ChatGPT. The San Francisco-based AI research lab took an ordinary AI question-answering tool that extracts relevant information from a website and turned it into an AI-powered chatbot that can dialog with virtually anyone across the globe using any of 95 human languages.
Seriously, Meta? How is that not innovative?
ChatGPT kick-started a revolution
Thankfully, other tech giants get it. Earlier this month, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, announced that Google’s search engine is about to get a boost from artificial intelligence.
Soon, Google plans to roll out an AI chatbot named Bard, which is similar to ChatGPT. Pichai says Bard will deliver “AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web.”
The day after Pichai made his announcement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella rose to the challenge, unveiling a pilot version of its brand-new, AI-powered Bing. Bing is built on OpenAI’s GPT-3 technology and promises to be even more powerful than ChatGPT.
Bard and Bing will both leverage internet search capabilities and access to current data—unlike ChatGPT, which is limited to the data it was trained on over a year ago. And because their respective data sets are significantly larger than those used to train ChatGPT, the AI-driven search engines should provide more accurate responses than ChatGPT.
Appetite for AI is high, and the market is growing fast
Tech heavyweights like Google and Microsoft aren’t the only players competing in today’s hot AI market. Consumers are hungry for AI-powered apps, and many smaller companies are bringing innovative products forward to meet the explosive demand.
Here at DeepMake, we’re working on making Deepfake technology accessible to everyone. Our innovative AI tools are built on FaceSwap, the leading Open Source multi-platform Deepfake software. With DeepMake’s generative AI, creating content has never been easier or faster.
Our goal is to put AI face replacement technology in the hands of artists and creators everywhere. With DeepMake’s tools, anyone who creates images—whether for commercial use or just for fun—can generate realistic face swap videos or photos quickly.
YouTubers and TikTokers, especially, will love DeepMake’s easy-to-use interface. But it’s not just for social media. Virtually anyone can use it.
Want to give your sister a birthday surprise she’ll never forget? Create a video that turns her into a pop star! With FaceSwap, it’s easy to replace faces. So, go ahead and make your sister look like Beyonce or her favorite celebrity.
Meta might disagree with us, but 100 million people have already proven them wrong.
Now that the world has gotten a taste of ChatGPT, consumers will be demanding even more and better AI-based apps. The frenzy has already started.
At DeepMake, we believe AI technology needs to be made accessible to everyone. Companies that understand that usability is a form of innovation will be leading the way to the future.
As for Meta? Well, its future remains to be seen.
But for DeepMake, FaceSwap is just the beginning.