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The Year AI Conquered Our Imaginations—Before It Conquers the World - The Ringer

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Generative AI wasn’t invented in 2023, but 2023 was the year it became a hit. Now we’re left to wonder where tech’s first exciting innovation in a while will lead humanity—and the robots themselves. Big Tech needed a win. If you’re going to understand artificial intelligence in 2023—and you should know up front that you aren’t going to understand it (no one understands it, including the people whose job it is to build and explain it; but let’s say you want to try)—here is your crucial piece of background information. Tech was on a losing streak. It is absurd to say that an industry is on a losing streak when the leaders of that industry are constantly in the news for building atmospherically regulated undersea bunkers where they can stroll through their kelp gardens sipping immortality serums after civilization collapses. Still. At the end of 2022, the metaverse was a bust. Cryptocurrency had been exposed as a kind of weird dating app designed to match the worst people in the world wit

Tech Tech The Year AI Conquered Our Imaginations—Before It Eventually Conquers the World Generative AI wasn’t invented in 2023, but 2023 was the year it became a hit. Now we’re left to wonder where tech’s first exciting innovation in a while will lead humanity—and the robots themselves. Getty Images/Ringer illustration By Brian Phillips Dec. 22, 2023, 11:20 am UTC • 11 min Big Tech needed a win. If you’re going to understand artificial intelligence in 2023—and you should know up front that you aren’t going to understand it (no one understands it, including the people whose job it is to build a

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