Why the AI industry could stand to slow down a little
by Casey Newton from The Verge - All Posts on (#6AC6K)
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What a difference four months can make.
If you had asked in November how I thought AI systems were progressing, I might have shrugged. Sure, by then OpenAI had released DALL-E, and I found myself enthralled with the creative possibilities it presented. On the whole, though, after years watching the big platforms hype up artificial intelligence, few products on the market seemed to live up to the more grandiose visions that have been described for us over the years.
Then OpenAI released ChatGPT, the chatbot that captivated the world with its generative possibilities. Microsoft's GPT-powered Bing browser, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Bard followed in quick succession. AI-powered tools are quickly working their way into other...