John Naughton writes:
2023 looks like being more like 1993 than any other year in recent history. In Spring of that year Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released Mosaic, the first modern Web browser and suddenly the non-technical world understood what this strange ‘Internet’ thing was for.
We’ve now reached a similar inflection point with something called ‘AI’
The first killer-app of Generative AI has just arrived in the form of ChatGPT… It’s become wildly popular almost overnight — going from zero to a million users in five days. Why? Because everyone can intuitively get that it can do something that they feel is useful but personally find difficult to do themselves. Which means that — finally — they understand what this ‘AI’ thing is for.