It is human nature to experience a new technology and think that’s the ultimate version of such technologies. We focus on the current hype, which may be accurate for today, but we miss the point that our history of humankind’s use of technology is comprised of a string of linked developments and enhancements of products and tools, each one with more features, better features or greater economies than the prior one. And so it is with generative AI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT was the first generative AI tool broadly released and that received widespread coverage. Will Douglas Heaven writes in MIT Technology Review that “interactive AI” may be the next step in the continuum of development of generative AI.
