What was you initial interaction with gpt 3.5 in December 2022?
Hi everyone, as the title suggests, wanted to know how people in sub collectively felt interacting with the chat bot made public by OpenAI when it was first released on 29th November 2022. I understand machine learning has been applicable to all fields long before that however with gpt 3.5 released it showed the public the true power and potential of this technology.
I gave it a try after the chat bot became viral on twitter and other platforms just to see what it was even about.
I first interacted with it on 12th of December 2022, still remember creating the account and typing my first prompt on that date. Since it was just released, it obviously did not take pdf or file uploads back then, so I copied a Matlab assignment problem from one of my undergrad papers and pasted the text directly into the prompt.
And when it gave me the direct answer, to the query almost like human, fuck me that sensation was crazy. Like it kinda felt like I gained consciousness again similar to like when you gain consciousness from childhood amnesia around the ages 2-4. I could never imagine life before 2023 anymore. I used be reminiscent of older times but not anymore after 2023, since there are now endless possibilities.
As of April 2026, the entire field has exploded with reasoning models, tools, agents , MCPs and so on and is only getting better.
If you can share your raw experience and emotions you felt using gpt 3.5 for the first time that would be great, would like to read through them.