Generative AI is Officially Mainstream

ChatGPT and generative AI is officially mainstream….I know, I’m late to the party, but hear me out.

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I was at a social event a couple of weeks back with a group of friends who started talking about how they were using ChatGPT. What really shocked me is that they don’t work in tech - they don’t really care about what’s happening in tech - we never talk about tech. Yet here we are, talking tech, and how ChatGPT wrote a poem based on the word “Colorado” for Bryce’s wife’s birthday.In our little tech bubble where six-figure salaries are living in poverty, all sorts of “mainstream” topics don’t matter to the outside world. I figured this was the same as all the other breakthroughs.

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When you go to your phone's photo library, and search for the word “dog” every dog photo we ever took shows up. That’s F*ing crazy, but it was just taken for granted.When in Italy, you point your phone at a menu and it live translates everything on the page. 🤯That is WILD - but again, no one seemed to be blown away.

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But ChatGPT - people reallllyyy care. (Big props to OpenAI’s marketing department)

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Why it’s so cool that people care: now we can really start to make things happen. Execs won’t roll their eyes when support wants to spearhead a project in the generative AI space - hell, because if they don’t, they are already behind their peers.

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It’s going to be a really exciting next few years!