The Simple Reason Why ChatGPT Sparked the AI Boom

“This is definitely surprising.”

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, wasn’t the only one caught off guard by the rapid success of ChatGPT when it was released in November 2022. Her colleague, OpenAI’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman, expressed similar sentiments, saying, “I’ll admit that I was on the side of, like, I don’t know if this is going to work.”