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

Technological advances work that way sometimes.

What happens is that lots of people are working on the same thing for a long time without much progress. They get close and might have different ideas about what the thing could be used for but they just can’t get it right.

Then someone figures out how to get it right. Once that happens others who have been working on it find out what they were doing wrong and soon you have many different versions as they complete their versions.