When the generative AI growth began with ChatGPT in late 2022, we have been bought a imaginative and prescient of superintelligent AI instruments that know every part, can change the boring bits of labor, and supercharge productiveness and financial good points.
Two years on, these productiveness good points principally haven’t materialized. As an alternative, we’ve seen one thing peculiar and barely surprising occur: Folks have began forming relationships with AI programs. We speak to them, say please and thanks, and have began to ask AIs into our lives as pals, lovers, mentors, therapists, and lecturers. It’s an enchanting improvement, and exhibits how laborious it’s to foretell how cutting-edge know-how can be adopted. Learn the total story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
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