ChatGPT is the most searched page on Wikipedia

TheStreet’s J.D. Durkin brings you the biggest news of the day, including fresh jobs data and the most searched Wikipedia page of 2023.

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00:00 I'm JD Durkin reporting from the New York Stock Exchange and here is a look at what

00:03 we are watching on the street today.

00:05 Wall Street is digesting yet another employment report that showed signs of a slowing in the

00:10 U.S. labor markets.

00:12 The U.S. economy adding 103,000 private sector jobs in November, below analysts' expectations

00:18 of 128,000.

00:19 The report comes just a few days before the all-important November jobs report, set for

00:24 release on Friday morning.

00:26 Meanwhile, Wall Street is paying close attention to the crypto market after Bitcoin surpassed

00:31 $44,000.

00:32 The digital asset has seen its price skyrocket 150% this year alone.

00:38 In other news we're following for you this morning, here's one more thing artificial

00:42 intelligence is taking over, your internet searches.

00:46 On Tuesday, Wikipedia released its top 25 most viewed pages from 2023 and at the very

00:52 top of the list is ChatGPT.

00:55 The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says the site has gotten more than

00:59 84 billion page views so far this year and ChatGPT's page has been visited 49.4 million

01:07 times, about 7 million more views than the second spot on the list.

01:12 Speaking with CNN, the Wikimedia Foundation's chief communications officer said, "It's

01:17 clear that people wanted to better understand the history and the context behind ChatGPT's

01:23 technology as they experimented with it."

01:25 Rounding out the top 5 were the list of notable people who died this year, the 2023 Cricket

01:31 World Cup, the Indian Premier League, which is a cricket league, as well as the movie

01:35 Oppenheimer.

01:36 The top 25 pages also included several movies, celebrities and world events, some of which

01:41 were Taylor Swift at number 12, Elon Musk at number 19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine

01:47 at number 24.

01:48 That'll do it for your daily briefing.

01:51 On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, I'm J.D. Durkin with The Street.

01:54 Thanks.

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