NEW YORK – The growing public spotlight on artificial intelligence (AI) has excited prospects for the future of the industry. Indeed, use cases for AI have run wild in the minds of both developers and the companies looking to integrate AI into their business models. Perhaps even more important for the growth of AI, though, is how accessible the technology has become to regular people through chatbots like ChatGPT.
Today, the public has its broadest and most explicit access to AI than ever before. Previously, the technology had hidden itself in clever ways, although it has always been there. Music streaming services use machine learning to inform users’ listening habits and recommend them new music. AI is also used to personalize ads on social media. It informs your GPS of road blockages, traffic slowdowns and the like to suggest route changes on the fly. More explicitly, AI exists in the form of personal assistants available on nearly every phone or smart device.
The surge in popularity of chatbots and generative AI art tools has changed this. People can now use AI to fulfill all sorts of tasks they couldn’t ask of the technology before, putting them in the driver’s seat for the first time.
This is mostly thanks to the efforts of AI developer OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot. Released in November 2022, the ChatGPT tool has prompted all of this ongoing excitement and fear around an AI-driven future. But there are plenty of reasons users may not want to use ChatGPT. It often gets bottlenecked unless you pay for a subscription, for example. It’s also not connected to the internet, limiting its dataset. This is driving some users to seek out alternatives.
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