What’s remarkable is how quickly this has all come to pass. In the fifteen years that I’ve written about the technology industry, I’ve never seen a field move as quickly as artificial intelligence has in just the last two years. The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 sparked a race to create a whole new kind of AI that didn’t just process information but generated it. Back then, AI tools could produce wonky images of dogs. Now they are churning out photorealistic pictures of Donald Trump, whose pores and skin texture look so lifelike they’re almost impossible to distinguish as fake.
