I grew up in a house that did not have a telephone — of any kind — until I was 9 years old.
That was hippie parenting 💪
Last week, I signed an agreement to NOT to use AI — while writing in another human’s voice for their online audience.
That’s how fast the world is changing.
In my lifetime, computer scientists have made giants steps toward making machines smarter than humans.
Today’s chart shows the exponential growth of AI since the 1940s, from Claude Shannon's Theseus to DALL-E and PaLM.
Why it matters
One notable symptom of generative AI is the saturation of the internet with dogshit text and images designed to trick other machines.
And, like flies, AI doomers and boosters are drawn in, creating a new industry of people pretending to know what the future holds.
They don’t. And neither do I.
Is AI a huge transformation of human society, like the agricultural and industrial revolutions? Or is it more like the blockchain which has not — yet - lived up to promises?
Here’s an educated guess at what to expect:
Eight decades is a very short history, and there’s no sign of hypergrowth hitting any limits. So we’re still in the early stages of whatever this is.
Looks like another good subject for the world’s simplest(?!) financial newsletter to track.
