Why ChatGPT Has an iPhone Moment (With One Touch)

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Exactly three weeks ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT.

Since then, it's been nearly impossible to keep up with both the excitement and the frowning concern over use cases for the text-generating chatbot, ranging from fun (writing limericks and rap lyrics ) to smart (write prompts for text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion) to dangerous (threat actors using it to generate phishing emails) and game-changing (Could Google's entire search model [subscription required] be turned upside down?).

Is it possible to compare this moment in the evolution of generative AI to any other technological development? According to Rowan Curran, AI/ML analyst at Forrester Research, it does.

"The only thing I could compare it to was the iPhone release," he told VentureBeat. Apple's iPhone wasn't the first smartphone, but it buried the competition with its touchscreen, ease of use, and the introduction of apps that put a whole computing experience in our pockets. The release of the original iPhone in January 2007, followed by the launch of the App Store in July 2008, ushered in a period of historic technological change, Curran explained - when the general public learned that there was a whole universe of creativity and applications he could work with.

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It made people realize "that you could have this handheld that's basically like [having] a Star Trek tricorder in your hand - this thing with tons of sensors and capabilities," he said. he declares.

ChatGPT, like the iPhone, is changing public consciousness

ChatGPT is also changing public awareness around what is possible. But what's happening now goes even beyond that, Curran pointed out.

"I think what's really unique here is that we have technology that's useful today, that's advancing very quickly, and that we're all learning in real time, both in terms of how the to use and how to prevent it being used in a negative way,” he said.

ChatGPT's release and adoption cycle has also been unique, he added. "There were a million users in the first few days or so - even if we assume a quarter of them are duplicates, that's still hundreds of thousands of human brains playing all of a sudden with this technology, which is very different from any other way the technology has been released and adopted,” he said.

Was it a responsible way to publish ChatGPT?

Although some have criticized the way OpenAI released ChatGPT, for example, a venture capitalist, an economist, and an MIT fellow