In 2018, when AI was at the top of Gartner's hype cycle, it was already on the agenda of the corporate elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “The technology will be better than fire” or it will “lead to World War III” is how beliefs diverged. It was just around the time GPT-1 opened. 1 Mainstream folks were still far away.

Today, in a time when much of the tech industry seems to be down in the dumps, AI is again experiencing a golden age. Twitter is swamped with techies showing off their latest experiments with ChatGPT, a recently released natural language processing model (davinci-003) developed by OpenAI, specifically trained to facilitate conversation.

The Silicon Valley elite, such as Marc Andreessen, Packy McCormick, Paul Graham, or Elon Musk, are eagerly tweeting about their latest experimeChatGPT. McCormick, for example, made ChatGPT “build an app that links to essays and produces 10-bullet summaries using GPT-3”. It worked. Someone made it solve an IQ test, on which it scored 83.

In 2022, investment and innovation in AI have exploded. Earlier this year, Google’s DeepMind was able to decipher the structure of virtually every protein known to science with a program called AlphaFold. The latest versions of AI image generation programs (e.g. Midjourney, Stability AI) are dazzling users with their abilities. I just recently started testing them myself and was blown away. You can check it out in this article.