A year ago those following developments related to artificial intelligence were prescient, but still in the margins. AI had been around at that point for 4+ decades in some form, but almost exclusively in the realm of science and enterprise applications. It was esoteric and far from mainstream.
Last Fall OpenAI released ChatGPT and gave everyone the opportunity to interact with AI, and millions upon millions did just that. Suddenly AI was all many were thinking, talking and concerned about. Suddenly, AI was mainstreamed.
About nine months after the release of ChatGPT WOW have things evolved quickly.
Accessible, dynamic AI platforms have impacted a multitude of human interactions and experiences from learning and teaching, to sales and marketing, searching and finding, user experience, measurement and analytics, creativity and design, and to businesses thinking strategically or defensively about how they will grow going forward, and what AI means to their core business, employees and customers.
And there have been thousands and thousands of AI platforms spawned from the release last year of ChatGPT. Literally +1,000 platforms released in single weeks.
Billions of dollars are being moved around the table by huge technology companies to try to gain advantage and to influence where all of this is headed. We are watching them navigate creative destruction and reactively innovate in real time. Decades old business models in technology are being upended right before our eyes.
Society generally, and governments and regulatory bodies in particular, are struggling to get ahead of what is likely the biggest paradigmatic shift for humanity since the advent of the internet. Possibly ever.
All together this has created a dynamic of excitement, anxiety, doomsaying, confusion and awe. It has cleaved the optimists from the pessimists.
Optimistically we hope for a bright future infused by AI while simultaneously pessimistically navigating existential dread and the possibly very real concern that AI will replace us.
It is July, 2023. Where do we go from here? What will the next State of AI update look like? We have no idea.
John Schneider
I have always been an early adopter. Ideas, concepts, technologies and methodologies, learning and testing these is a personal passion. This puts me in the unique position of usually having perspective, POV and experience with this newness before everyone else. I use this to both my and my consulting clients advantage. Let me show you.