
Artificial intelligence will be 2023âs.
Perhaps nothing indicates this better than OpenAI and its conversational robot ChatGPT. Forbes estimates that itâs already exceeded 5 million users in less than 60 days from launch.
Then, thereâs Stability AIâs open-source image generation model Stable Diffusion, which has been used on pop music videos, Hollywood movies and by more than 10 million people on a daily basis. Stabilityâs brash CEO Emad Mostaque predicts the âdot-AI bubbleâ is coming. If OpenAI (recently valued at $29 billion) and Stability ($1 billion, off virtually no revenue) are any indication, itâs already begun. While the experts Forbes spoke to have different views on how the market will play out, one thing is for sure: soon, AI will be affecting the way that you work, like it or not.
Here are six things you probably didnât know about ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and the future of generative AI. For more, read Forbesâ new magazine feature on the dawn of the work-ready AI era.
Bill Gates is excited about AI, and is now spending 10% of his time back at Microsoft meeting with product teams, he said. Heâs not alone: At Google, CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly enacted a âcode redâ emergency, reorienting the companyâs work to focus on ways to counteract ChatGPT and similar tools. In turn, hermetic founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are back. Forbes broke the news that Brin filed a code request on LaMDA, Googleâs natural language chatbot, in Januaryâhis first in years.