The Current Pace of AI Progress Is...Nuts?
A look back at a year of insane advances within text, image, video, and other types of consumer-level AI tools.
I’ll admit, what initially sucked me into the whole AI scene was all the cool images that pre-trained algorithms could draw.
Daniel see pretty picture. Daniel happy. Daniel enjoy shiny art.
But ever since I started paying closer attention, the sheer speed of developments within the AI space caught me off-guard.
It’s been staggering, even by modern standards of technological progress. We’ve jumped from text-writing AI to image-drawing AI to (soon) video- and music-producing AI in the span of a single year.
That’s half the time it takes an African elephant to birth one baby.
Now, I’m not talking about all of the invisible, behind-the-scenes stuff that made this apparent AI explosion possible. Lots of people far smarter than I have been developing and training these AI models for years.
I’m talking about just the releases of ready-to-use tools made available to us, mere mortals.
So I wanted to help all of us (myself includ…