If you’re worried that artificial intelligence will change your job, interfere with your daily life, or lead to wars with deadly autonomous systems, you’re too late – because it’s already happened.

The AI ​​revolution is here. Recent developments like chatbots are important, but mostly they serve as a reminder that artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on our lives for decades.

Right now, new text (like ChatGPT) and image generation systems (like DALL·E 2 and Midjourney) are the first AI applications to allow a large number of ordinary users to use AI for creative tasks.

Kara LaPoint, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Technology, recently noted that “we are at a tipping point.”

In the past, creating something useful with AI required the resources of Google. Now anyone with an internet connection can do it.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a recent article that we are living in “the age of artificial intelligence” and compared artificial intelligence systems to the first graphical user interface (GUI) on Windows and Macintosh computers. He predicts that in the future, communicating with machines through natural language interfaces will become the new dominant way of interacting with them.

But a decade later, AI is already a key tool in warfare, finance, managing capital markets, insuring our assets, targeting ads, and providing search results.

“Most people don’t know this story,” says David McInnis, vice president of analytics and modernization for Allstate Insurance Company. Algorithms decide which ads to show on your social feed with such incredible precision that it convinces millions of consumers. They use the same math as insurers to decide how much to charge for an insurance policy.

Dr. LaPoint notes that what characterizes the current period is that computers, not humans, now create models that machines use to complete a task.

ChatGPT uses a variety of algorithms and technologies that AI scientists have been developing over the years to predict which word to add next to existing text.