> The view from outside of tech is very much "We went from having no AI to having ChatGPT overnight!" In their defense, for most people that is what happened.

> The view from outside of tech is very much "We went from having no AI to having ChatGPT overnight!" In their defense, for most people that is what happened. Sure, they've been using "AI" tools of varying degree for a long time (spellcheck, language translation), but now they have totally free access to something that behaves sorta like the AIs they've seen on the popular Star Trek shows -- where, incidentally, the AIs were also imperfect.