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

It’s mainly marketing. AI reached a point where companies felt confident marketing it. But it has been around for a while. Companies are openly working on it and training it for years and chat bots, back end AI processing and other consumer functions have been around for a while but we usually commonly called them “algorithms”.

Now that AI is the new hotness and driving the stock market every company out there is trying to integrate it into their pitch for their products and services.