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

The short answer is that AI is an ambiguous word. It used to mean “computers doing whatever computers cannot do”. But at some point semantics changed and it became “anything involving chatbots”.

The underlying technology like deep neural networks and even transformers and attention networks have been in development for a long time.