{"id":149098,"date":"2022-10-29T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/why-generative-ai-is-suddenly-on-everyones-lips-its-an-open-field"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:23:13","slug":"why-generative-ai-is-suddenly-on-everyones-lips-its-an-open-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/why-generative-ai-is-suddenly-on-everyones-lips-its-an-open-field","title":{"rendered":"Why \u201cgenerative AI\u201d is suddenly on everyone\u2019s lips: it\u2019s an \u201copen field\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-generative-ai-is-suddenly-on-everyones-lips-its-an-open-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been closely following the progress of <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\">Open AI<\/a>, the company run by Sam Altman whose neural nets can now write original text and create original pictures with astonishing ease and speed, you might just skip this piece.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, you\u2019ve only been vaguely paying attention to the company\u2019s progress and the increasing traction that other so-called \u201cgenerative\u201d AI companies are suddenly gaining and want to better understand why, you might benefit from this interview with James Currier, a five-time founder and now venture investor who cofounded the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfx.com\/\">NFX<\/a> five years ago with several of his serial founder friends.<\/p>\n<p>Currier falls into the camp of people following the progress closely \u2014 so closely that NFX has made numerous related investments in \u201cgenerative tech\u201d as he describes it, and it\u2019s garnering more of the team\u2019s attention every month. In fact, Currier doesn\u2019t think the buzz about this new wrinkle on AI isn\u2019t hype so much as a realization that the broader startup world is suddenly facing a very big opportunity for the first time in a long time. \u201cEvery 14 years,\u201d says Currier, \u201cwe get one of these Cambrian explosions. We had one around the internet in \u201994. We had one around mobile phones in 2008. Now we\u2019re having another one in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been closely following the progress of Open AI, the company run by Sam Altman whose neural nets can now write original text and create original pictures with astonishing ease and speed, you might just skip this piece. If, on the other hand, you\u2019ve only been vaguely paying attention to the company\u2019s progress and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}