Jeff and Seymour kick off 2024 with a discussion of the three phases of generative AI.

Phase 1: The launch of ChatGPT in November, 2022.

Phase 2: The rise and fall of AI wrapper companies during early- to mid-2023.

Phase 3: The current emergence of AI Agents that can automatically chain together multiple steps that drastically change the kinds of products that can be built and the software development work behind them. 

Links:

• The Information's article "OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks"   
• Links from Google's 2018 launch of Google Duplex:
  • Blog post by Google Research
  • Initial 2018 review
  • 2019 retropsective from The Verge

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