Four years of ChatGPT: AI moves from background to daily conversation
The article notes that since ChatGPT launched on Nov 30, 2022, large language models have become nearly synonymous with AI, though AI had long worked behind the scenes in recommendation, translation and spam filtering. It traces AI back to the 1943 neural network, the 1950 Turing test and the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, citing OpenAI's Sam Altman saying 'we are in the Singularity.'