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

A few of them were already refining AI models, but once one was released, the others had to release theirs. There are a lot of AI products that are secretly just GPT with a different sticker. Probably the biggest group is just calling any semi-complicated algorithm an AI because it sounds cool.