How AI is Changing the World at a Breakneck Pace

AI is Changing the World at a Breakneck Pace (2023)<br><br>Yesterday:<br><br>* There was no such thing as generative AI<br>* Everyone used google<br>* Microsoft was on life support<br>* Nobody had heard of Midjourney, DALL-E, or Stable Diffusion<br>* Nobody had heard of Claude, Gemini, Llama, or Perplexity<br>* ChatGPT didn't exist<br>* Elon Musk was not focused on AI safety<br>* Nobody knew what the term " prompt engineering" meant<br>* Nobody was discussing AI uselessness syndrome<br>* Nobody was discussing AI safety<br>* Nobody was discussing AI ethics<br>* Nobody was calling for an AI pause<br><br>Today:<br><br>* There are so many AI companies that you've never heard of<br>* There are now multiple search engines that are better than google<br>* Microsoft is thriving<br>* Everyone has heard of Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion<br>* Ultimately Claude, Gemini, Llama, and Perplexity will just be the name of some old AI from 2023-2024<br>* ChatGPT is still around, but it's not the hype it used to be<br>* Elon Musk is now the head of OpenAI's AI safety board<br>* Everyone knows what "prompt engineering" means<br>* Everyone is discussing AI uselessness syndrome<br>* Everyone is discussing AI safety<br>* Everyone is discussing AI ethics<br>* Everyone is calling for an AI pause<br><br>Tomorrow:<br><br>* There will be even more AI companies you've never heard of<br>* There will be even more search engines that are better than google<br>* Microsoft and OpenAI are merge into the omniscient, benevolent, future AI gods<br>* Everyone will forget about Midjourney, DALL-e, Stable Diffusion, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Perplexity, and ChatGPT<br>* Elon Musk will be the president of the United States of Earth and AI<br>* Everyone will be experts in prompt engineering<br>* Everyone will have AI uselessness syndrome<br>* Everyone will agree AI safety is our #1 concern<br>* Everyone will agree AI ethics are our #2 concern<br>* Everyone will agree that we should pause AI development<br><br>What did we call AI 70 years ago, when it was new? What will we call AI 70 years from now, when it's old?