The fact that the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more and more widespread is not only shown by the record-breaking increase in users using its capabilities. But also the amount of people who are looking for information about AI. And the most famous of its tools, ChatGPT, not only won the title of the fastest growing application of all time in 2023 (launched a year ago, today it has 100 million users), but is also at the top of the ranking of the most clicked pages on Wikipedia in the last twelve months.
The title was awarded to him by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that manages the most popular encyclopedia on the Internet and today published the usual list of the most consulted entries of the year, a useful compass also for understanding the pop phenomena of the year , which is coming to an end soon.
The number of pages opened (and the number refers to the English version alone) was 84 billion. The one on ChatGPT, the chatbot created by the company OpenAI, was the most visited with a total of 49 million times (78 million taking into account the versions in each language), with a constant average between 100,000 and 400,000 clicks per day. And if the silver medal goes to the side that collects the current year’s deaths, the bronze medal instead certifies the rise of a sport and therefore a nation.
The surprise of 2023 is actually cricket. A sport almost unknown in Italy, but very popular in the United Kingdom (where it was invented in the late Middle Ages) and in the countries of South Asia and Oceania, once part of the Empire and now part of the Commonwealth. So much so that the rumor about the World Cup being held in India this year was the third most opened (38 million times). Directly below, in fourth place, is the page about the Indian Premier League (the Indian Championship); and then that on the history of the World Cup tournament (sixth place) and that on the last season of the Indian Serie A (ninth place). In short, four entries into the top 10 for a sport that has never been ranked before.
Then there is room for entertainment, and here the cinema dominates with two films: “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, which will be shown in cinemas in the USA from July 21st. Not only were the revenues record-breaking (1.4 billion dollars in the first, 950 million in the second), but also the clicks on Wikipedia, where the story of the first atomic bomb was the most popular: 28 million page views (and fifth place overall, in seventh place the article about Robert Oppenheimer) against the 18 million for the film about the famous doll (thirteenth place). But here too, India stands out (with its 760 million digital users), where the two big hits at the box office and on the web are the two action films “Jawan” (21 million page views, eighth place) and “Pathaan” (19 million clicks and tenth place). Place).
Finally another great classic, celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment. Inevitably, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi are in 16th and 17th place. But the most famous of the famous is the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, 19.4 million clicks and 12th place overall. 2023 was an unforgettable year for the pop star. Her “The Eras Tour”, 151 concerts around the world (from March 2023 to December 2024), broke every record: the fastest sold-out tickets in history, the highest earnings ever for an artist and her personal fortune increased to over one Billion Dollars (first musician to do this). In short, it is no coincidence that Time magazine named her Person of the Year today.
Here is the complete ranking:
1) ChatGPT, 49,490,406
2) Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860
3) Cricket World Cup 2023, 38,171,653
4) Indian Premier League, 32,012,810
5) Oppenheimer (film), 28,348,248
6) Cricket World Cup, 25,961,417
7) J. Robert Oppenheimer, 25,672,469
8) Jawan (film), 21,791,126
9) Indian Premier League 2023, 20,694,974
10) Pathaan (Film), 19,932,509
11) The Last of Us (TV series), 19,791,789
12) Taylor Swift, 19,418,385
13) Barbie (movie), 18,051,077
14) Cristiano Ronaldo, 17,492,537
15) Lionel Messi, 16,623,630
16) Premier League, 16,604,669
17) Matthew Perry, 16,454,666
18) United States of America, 16,240,461
19) Elon Musk, 14,370,395
20) Avatar: The Way of Water (Movie), 14,303,116
21) India, 13,850,178
22) Lisa Marie Presley, 13,764,007
23) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, 13,392,917
24) Russian invasion of Ukraine, 12,798,866
25) Andrew Tate, 12,728,616