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The World in 2023 the hottest year ever recorded

By late 2023 about 100 million people were using ChatGPT every week. That is more than the whole population of Germany.

Life back then

AI chatbots went from novelty to homework helper in a single year, and fake AI photos, like the pope in a puffy white coat, fooled millions. Twitter was renamed X, and a rival app called Threads signed up 100 million people in five days. Moviegoers dressed in pink for Barbenheimer double features. Liverpool hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine, which had won the year before but could not stage the show during the war.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Feb 6 Earthquakes strike Turkey and Syria before dawn. More than 50,000 people die.
• 🤖Mar 14 The American company OpenAI releases GPT-4, a big step up for AI chatbots.
• 🤝Apr 4 Finland joins NATO, ending decades of neutrality and doubling the alliance's border with Russia.
• 👑May 6 Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey, the first British coronation in 70 years.
• 🎬Jul 14 Hollywood actors join writers on strike, and film and TV production stops for months.
• 🕯️Aug 8 A wildfire burns through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii. About 100 people die.
• 🌕Aug 23 India's Chandrayaan-3 lands near the Moon's south pole, a first for any country.
• 🕯️Oct 7 Hamas attacks Israel, killing about 1,200 people. A devastating war in Gaza follows.

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