What Happened To AI In 2022?

In 2022, the AI boutique movie became a blockbuster. It took exactly ten years for the modern AI story to transform from the new new thing for a bunch of geeks to popular entertainment for the masses. In 2022, AI conversationalist ChatGPT signed up more than one million users in 5 days and AI image generator Midjourney amassed 6 million members in less than 6 months. The 2012 deep learning breakthrough in image identification convinced many computer science PhD candidates to switch their dissertation work to the new superior method for finding patterns in data. Even more important, the entire "Silicon Valley" community fell for the hype created by this new phase of the six decades-long quest for replicating human intelligence in a computer.