ChatGPT was still years away, but for many NLP researchers, GPT-3 was the moment when everything changed. Now Bender’s octopus was real. CHRISTOPHER CALLISON-BURCH (professor of computer and information science, University of Pennsylvania) : I got early access to the GPT-3 beta and was actually playing with it myself.

​https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/