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ChatGPT Killed the Old AI. Now Everyone Is Rushing to Build a New One
ChatGPT is possibly the best and worst thing to ever happen to AI
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ChatGPT brought a lot of good things to AI. Attention and interest by the general public as well as governments, increased access to tech previously reserved for researchers working on big tech, a healthy (initially) competition that forced product ideas and price decreases, and a lot of promises (some already fulfilled, others will never be).
On the other hand, it also gave way to a phenomenon that happens when a new piece of tech creates (not enters) a market. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad thing, but it has turned out to be an unexpected drawback: Modern AI, which is barely an engineering discipline trying to become a science (some have…
