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

AI has been around pretty much since computers were invented (more or less) you just don’t think of early AI as “AI” but remember clippy? The paperclip that never went away? that was very rudimentary AI.

Same thing with things like autocorrect and what not, it’s all artificial intelligence that learns based on pooled data from everyone and then gives a result