The future of AI

We’re at a fascinating point in the history of computing, as most people think that we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to artificial intelligence. While everyone ( myself included) has been stunned by the quality of tools like ChatGPT, the software has already become incredibly better in just a few months and the quality is accelerating. Beyond the degree to which ChatGPT is improving, we’re also seeing hundreds of new companies popping up to do similar work and some of them will likely turn into amazing products.

In terms of rapid quality increases, GPT 3.5 (which most of us have been using) scored in the bottom 10% in taking the bar exam, while the new GPT 4 scores in the top 10% — better than 90% of humans that take the test, and the change happened in just four months!

So what does future of AI look like for us?

Search engine pain

I’ll start with the easy one; search engines are going to be wildly different in just a few years, for two reasons:

1. The glut of new content is upon us, and it’s only going to accelerate. More and more content on the internet is going to be written by AI, and it’s going to be nearly impossible to detect. Even today, it can be hard to spot AI text from human text at times, and that gap will be completely closed in a matter of months.