ChatGPT has ushered in a technological but also societal revolution. On the two-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, Dominik Lukes will reflect on the journey to today and the current state of Generative AI with a focus on what has changed compared to our expectations in 2022, what has stayed the same and what we can see coming on the horizon. 

Now that we’ve had ChatGPT and other tools for two years, Dominik will look at what we currently know and what we should expect in the future by addressing the following questions: 

• What was it that was so transformational about ChatGPT? 

• What were the key technological breakthroughs that enabled the Large Language Models to become widely useful? 

• What has changed about the capabilities of Large Language Models in the intervening two years? 

• What are the cutting-edge developments that promise future improvements? 

• What does the application landscape look like with two years' worth of investment? 

• What do we know about the wider impact on society and in particular Higher Education?