{"id":151246,"date":"2023-08-02T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/?p=151246"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:16:58","slug":"hackathon-similarask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/ai-news\/hackathon-similarask\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Learned by Leveraging ChatGPT for Digital Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

No technology or business leader could fail to be astonished by the growth ChatGPT experienced<\/a> in the first few months after its release in November 2022. The ChatGPT website topped 1 billion visits by February<\/a> and was up to 1.8 billion as of May, surpassing well-known sites like Bing in global traffic.<\/p>\n

Not bad for a website OpenAI originally released as a technology demo, not necessarily anticipating that it was about to become one of the most-trafficked websites<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n

As the leader of a team of technologists who model digital traffic and engagement metrics<\/a>, I was impressed by the numbers \u2013 but also the potential for reinventing our own products and services with similar technologies. It didn\u2019t take much for me to encourage our engineers to begin experimenting \u2013 I don\u2019t think I could have held them back if I tried \u2013 and it wasn\u2019t long before they had a demo that wowed our company leaders.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we announced the beta of SimilarAsk<\/a>, which grew out of an R&D hackathon where the engineers showed off the possibilities.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the original hackathon demo video (a more polished marketing department-approved version of what we\u2019re actually announcing is here<\/a>).<\/p>\n