Just 6 months ago Twitter was flooded with Tweets about #dalle. Then came #midjourney and #stablediffusion. 2 months ago, #chagpt exploded. Now the chatter mostly died down. I wonder if you weren't on Twitter, would you know of these novelties?
I don't know how these technologies captured users' attention on another social media platform. LensaAI exploded elsewhere, but I'm unaware of where. Information bubbles exist across platforms as the exist within platforms.
We make the mistake that true novelties are not novel anymore because we were exposed too early in the adoption cycle. Image2Text is not novel enough anymore to warrant a tweet! But what effect is this on people who were never exposed to it? It's as if that novelty never existed.
Very soon, ChatGPT will recede from the short attention span of society. It will have the same effect as GPT-3 around 2 years ago. People forgot about it! Many never needed to forget because they never heard about it!
Society cannot keep up with the information deluge. It takes a few years for new discoveries to diffuse through society. I wrote my book "Artificial Intuition" 5 years ago. I was pleased to see the concept articulated in the series "Peripheral." amazon.com/Artificial-Int…
The problem with AI technology is that its progress is invisible. Technological progress before the 1970s was conspicuous. The difference between 1970 and 20 years earlier was visibly obvious. It's hard to visually see the difference between 2020 and 2000.
We only know of change when we are immersed in it. So if the chatter about #dalle and #gpt dies down, will general society even be aware of it? When it takes over everything, will everyone just be caught flatfooted, unawares of where it came from?
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