It is not easy to surprise Bill Gates – but the OpenAI team managed to do so. Last September, the Microsoft founder’s challenge was met: AI (Artificial Intelligence) successfully passed an advanced high school biology exam – the same exam that the most talented students take to enter American higher education.
Gates set this particular task before OpenAI, because success required not only memorization, but also critical thinking and a deep understanding of the field. An additional condition was that the system should not be specially prepared or fine-tuned for this exam. Gates anticipated that the AI experts would be occupied with the task for years – but to his astonishment, after only a few months, he was invited to the demo. At this demo, the GPT AI not only passed the exam, but also provided correct answers t
Two months later, OpenAI researchers released a friendly chat interface to GPT that everyone could understand – and the resulting ChatGPT reached a hundred million users in another two months, thus becoming by far the fastest-spreading technology of all time.