CHAPTER 3FROM TURING TO TRANSFORMERS
This has been one of the most challenging chapters of the book to write. When I started writing in late 2022, ChatGPT was something that only engineers were playing with – using a vastly different interface than we see today. As I write this chapter, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E, which provides a text-to-image service, has just launched Sora. This is a text-to-video service that will revolutionise how moving images are created.1
Even as a futurist, it’s hard to predict what OpenAI will do next. As I’ve been working on this book, I’ve witnessed:
- The launch of ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4, ChatGPT 4o and ChatGPT 5, which is likely to be live by the time you read this.
- Sam Altman be ousted as CEO, only to be reinstated days later.
- Microsoft hire Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, as CEO of a new division: Microsoft AI.2
- OpenAI’s video-to-text tool, Sora, be out in the open.
By the time this book is published, there will be many more twists and turns in the AI world. Not just from OpenAI, but from Google with Gemini, Amazon with their investment in Anthropic, or another player that no-one has considered yet.
The problem I face, as an author of a physical book about the use of emerging technologies, including GenAI, is how I can keep up with the latest trends between submitting my manuscript and the publication date and beyond.
In the printed pages here, I will review what has come so far and make some broad predictions ...
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