OpenAI releases ChatGPT as a research preview

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Released ChatGPT as a research preview

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The conversational UI opened prompting to non-experts, turning a skill of a few practitioners into a mass phenomenon

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On the map — ① Prompt Engineering line

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  2. This record · stopChatGPT
  3. Next stopPrompt injection leaks Bing Chat's codename Sydney and its system instructions
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In the model family tree — GPT family · 23 versions

  1. Earlier versionInstructGPT
  2. This recordChatGPT
  3. Later versionGPT-4
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