OBJECT RECORD / AIM-WEB-2022-001

Introducing ChatGPT

The launch record for a conversational research preview.

CURATORIAL READING

Why it is here

OpenAI presented ChatGPT as a research preview and described a dialogue format that could answer follow-up questions, acknowledge mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject some inappropriate requests.

Evidence boundary

Read the page as a launch document. Its examples, limitations, and deployment language show how the product was framed on release day—not how later versions behaved.

12 / REACH THE PUBLIC

Position in the guided path

From written rules to learned representations

A research preview turns model interaction into a public conversational interface.

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PROVENANCE

Source trail