I’ll admit that I’ve tiptoed around the topic a bit in Actuator due to its sudden popularity (SEO gods be damned). I’ve been in this business long enough to instantly be suspicious of hype cycles. That said, I totally get it this time around.
While it’s true that various forms of machine learning and AI touch our lives every day, the emergence of ChatGPT and its ilk present something far more immediately obvious to the average person. Typing a few commands into a dialog box and getting an essay, a painting or a song is a magical experience – particularly for those who haven’t followed the minutiae of this stuff for years or decades.
If you’re reading this, you were probably aware of these notions prior to the last 12 months, but try to put yourself in the shoes of someone who sees a news story, visits a site and then seemingly out of nowhere, a machine is creating art. Your mind would be, in a word, blown. And rightfully so.
Over the past few months, we’ve co...
