Plate VII. The Salon of Voices, 2022–2024
The Salon of Voices
A chat box reaches a hundred million people, and everyone has an opinion.
ChatGPT launched on 30 November 2022 as a “research preview”. Within months GPT-4, Claude and Gemini followed, open-weight models spread, and the world argued about pauses, extinction risk and copyright.
It was loud: open letters, a boardroom crisis at OpenAI, the first AI safety summit, the EU AI Act, and Nobel prizes for neural networks and protein structure.
Events
- ChatGPT launches (30 Nov 2022)
- “The hottest new programming language is English” (24 Jan 2023)
- Bing’s “Sydney” misbehaves (16 Feb 2023)
- GPT-4, and Claude, on the same day (14 Mar 2023)
- The pause letter (22 Mar 2023)
- Hinton leaves Google to speak freely (1 May 2023)
- Statement on AI Risk (30 May 2023)
- Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit (1 Nov 2023 – 2 Nov 2023)
- OpenAI’s board fires, then rehires, Sam Altman (17 Nov 2023 – 22 Nov 2023)
- Google Gemini 1.0 (6 Dec 2023)
- Sora previews text-to-video (15 Feb 2024)
- Glue on pizza (May 2024)