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 research has been going on since the 1950s. There have been a lot of false starts and stuff that didn’t work very well. The large language model of AI needed really fast hardware to be able to process the insane amount of data needed to train it. Once powerful CPUs and GPUs became available, stuff moved forward faster.