Part 1 of 5: The day everything changed.
November 2022. One button. Five days. One million users.
ChatGPT has just been born, and nobody yet knows that the world will never be quite the same again. What took Facebook 10 months and Netflix three and a half years happened in less than a week.
Today, you talk to it the way you would ask someone the time. 400 million people do so every week. The machine has entered our thoughts. Discreetly. Massively.
But here is the most unsettling part: this revolution rests on a discovery only eight years old. An innocuous-looking paper. An almost bureaucratic title: “Attention Is All You Need”.
Its authors probably did not know they had just rewritten history.
How did a technology colonise our lives so quickly? How can a machine write like Hemingway, code like a senior developer, and sometimes… understand us better than we understand ourselves?
In this five-part series, I invite you on a journey to the heart of this silent revolution. No jargon. No mystification. Just clarity.
Because understanding AI is no longer a luxury. It has become a civic necessity.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: How ChatGPT revolutionized the world (Part 1/5)