![]() ![]() A common refrain: “ It was like magic.”ĬhatGPT is free, for now. Twitter users (in a brief respite from talking about Elon Musk) are sharing delightful examples of genuinely clever writing. Professors are warning that this will be the end of the college essay. It’s not the first AI chatbot, and it certainly won’t be the last, but its intuitive user interface and overall effectiveness leave the collective impression that the future is arriving. That sense of wonderment accelerated last month with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Some of it was weird, some was trite, and some was shockingly good. Overnight, people started sharing AI artwork they had generated for free by simply typing a prompt into a text box. It began with the AI image generators DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. After years of seemingly false promises, AI got startlingly good in 2022. ![]() The one exception this year has been in the field of generative AI. The expected revolutions-the metaverse, blockchain, self-driving cars-have plodded along, always with promises that the real transformation is just a few years away. Each new tablet and smartphone is only a modest improvement over its predecessor. ![]() Clarke once remarked, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That ambient sense of magic has been missing from the past decade of internet history. ![]()
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