🎉 Two Years of ChatGPT: The Most Reliable Chatbot, Ideology Aside 🤖

Despite growing competition from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, OpenAI's tool remains the most trustworthy and innovative for 200 million weekly users.

This Saturday, November 30, marks two years of ChatGPT. Two years in which the advancements have been remarkable. Now we can converse with this AI from OpenAI, upload images, ask it to generate them, create texts with sources updated almost in real time from the Internet, produce videos with Sora (still limited to certain users), use it as a search engine, and personalize it through the memory of our queries and work.

The past year has been especially intense, both for the new features and the backstory of the company, which has established itself on the playing field of the tech giants. Its most visible figure, Sam Altman, gives the impression of being here to stay. ChatGPT has 200 million weekly users, and OpenAI has set the pace for others to follow, to the point that some competitors have chosen to ally with it rather than fight it directly, like Apple and Microsoft.

Despite the competition, its popularity endures. During this period, Google has advanced with Gemini, Microsoft has launched Copilot, and Meta has made significant strides with Llama and the integration of its AI into most of its platforms. Except for Apple, and leaving Anthropic as a smaller but not insignificant player — perhaps Perplexity too — the open fronts to dethrone OpenAI have intensified in recent months.

As 2024 comes to a close, we celebrate the second anniversary of ChatGPT, arguably the most robust and reliable AI, always present, though occasionally Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or Mistral might surprise us. These have been two years of hegemony, staying a few steps ahead and avoiding glaring errors in its presentations (thinking of Google) or turning its “hallucinations” into news (as has happened with Gemini and its amusing blunders).

ChatGPT may have better or worse days, like any human, but over these two years, it has demonstrated a consistency, continuous innovation, and reliability that are crucial in this era of increasing AI mainstream adoption. What Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, or Grok offer, and what Apple or Anthropic may bring in the future, seems more like a complement, an entertainment, or an alternative to avoid getting tired of ChatGPT.

From creating real-time texts to personalizing experiences, this OpenAI chatbot has redefined what we expect from AI. Despite growing competition from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, ChatGPT remains the most reliable and innovative tool for 200 million weekly users. What have we learned in these two years of its dominance?

Subscribers would probably agree that the $20 monthly fee is one of the best investments. Interacting with ChatGPT through videos, photos, documents, and text is a comprehensive experience that makes it the most reliable AI assistant. Decades ago, we were loyal to a newspaper, a radio station, and a television channel; we chose the editorial line of the media that best aligned with our ideology. Now, we are loyal to one AI more than another. We have our reference AI, and if we want to experiment, try, or compare, we turn to others, which are growing in number and improving steadily.

This strong competition hasn’t harmed ChatGPT at all. It has proven so over the past two years. Adding to this is the fact that OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, are the boldest, most transparent, and newsworthy — aside from Elon Musk — , making the emotional connection and daily dependency we’ve developed with ChatGPT in these two intense and passionate years overwhelming.

Some say it leans more to the right than to the left. Although it’s hard for me to discern the ideology of its creators, with ChatGPT and other AIs, I feel the same way I used to with media outlets: I prefer their reliability and rigor, even if I don’t always share certain editorial biases. Learning to distinguish between the robustness of the tool and its possible “editorial tint” — in chatbots, those didactic remarks or repetitive phrases — has been one of the most valuable lessons I’ve experienced in these two years.

My relationship with ChatGPT is simple: I respect your editorial stance, but you fulfill my requests. Let’s keep a good relationship that lasts for many more years. Happy anniversary, ChatGPT!