Eli5: How did we go from zero ai, to one company with an ai that holds a conversation, and then seemingly immediately on to multiple companies with ai that makes music, photos, and movies in such a short period of time?

Question

For real. One day there’s nothing. Then chat gpt shows up. And then the next day ai can create ANYTHING and there are a whole bunch of companies with software.

In: Technology

Answer 1

Because one could just as easily say that we are still at zero AI.

The AI label is being put on everything at this point. I half-expect to see potato chips “flavored by AI” in the grocery store on my next visit.

We still don’t have artificial intelligence and we may still be very far away from that.

We do have some semi-impressive software tools that are being called AI, but they also could be called many other things.

In other words, AI is the marketing word currently being used to talk about the latest advances in computer software and tools. Some of those tools aren’t very reliable either.