Artificial intelligence is everywhere, whether you realize it or not. It’s behind the chatbots you talk to online, the playlists you stream and the personalized ads that somehow know exactly what you’ve been craving. Now it’s taking on a more public persona: Think Meta AI, showing up in apps like Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp; or Google’s Gemini, working in the background across the company’s platforms; or Apple Intelligence, just now starting a slow rollout.
AI has a long history, going back to a conference at Dartmouth in 1956 that first discussed artificial intelligence as a thing. Milestones along the way include ELIZA, essentially the first chatbot, developed in 1964 by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, and 2004, when Google’s autocomplete first appeared.
Then came 2022 and ChatGPT’s rise to fame. Generative AI developments and product launches have accelerated…
