In the nineteenth century, electricity was to be credited for many advancements, but it was really with the development of devices such as the light bulb and telephone that it made an impression on the public. When tools like ChatGPT were unveiled in 2020, some experts think that this brought about a realization of what AI was capable of, encouraging an understanding of the utility of this technology for anyone who wasn’t already involved in technology.
Stephen Wolfram, the renowned computer scientist, physicist and CEO of Wolfram Alpha, is reminiscent of the 19th century when electricity was used practically and its effects on regular people were palpable.
He described computation as an empowering mechanism while during an interview at Imagination in Action conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. To illustrate, he referred to the way electricity was already being used to benefit human communication before the first operational telephone. People had made attempts for a lengthy period of time.
At 1877, Alexander Graham Bell initiated Bell Telephone as a business to sell telephones and revolutionized the way people communicated.
Peter Levine, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, likens the current period of AI to the development of electricity– something that was refined over a long period before resulting in practical applications. He expresses excitement as it is “the first time the light bulb goes on in the street.” Levine stated that individuals responded with astonishment, saying, “I comprehend it.”
Wolfram stressed that what makes this approach so powerful is its linguistic user interface, which enables us to connect with the AI in a more direct way. He commented, “We were able to incorporate everything that can be found on the web, in books, and so on, and make it into something that can put out answers that make sense to people.”
AI could potentially have a major effect on forward-thinking corporate software, which new businesses that are currently fabricating a product should consider. According to Levine, incorporating AI will more than likely become a must for all companies from now on.
Going forward, AI will be a requisite feature of every application. This is when that begins; just like databases and operating systems are essential in modern applications, AI will become a required element as well. This could have a huge impact on how applications work and how we interact with them.
Slow down.
Vishal Sikka, the CEO and founder of Vanai Systems–an MLOps startup–and formerly the CEO of Infosy, holds a more nuanced opinion about when businesses will apply AI technology in their mission critical applications. He posits that we may have not reached the “aha moment” yet and could take more time than expected for this technology to become standard in certain companies.
