Why this ChatGPT moment harks back to the original iPhone - Jack Of All Techs

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Exactly three weeks ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT. Since then, it has been nearly impossible to keep up with both the hyped-up excitement and brow-furrowing concerns around use cases for the text-generating chatbot, ranging from the fun (writing limericks and rap lyrics) and the clever (writing prompts for text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion) to the dangerous (threat actors using it for generating phishing emails) and the game-changing (could Google's entire search model [subscription required] be upended?). Is it possible to compare this moment in the evolution of generative AI to any other technology development? According to Forrester Research AI/ML analyst Rowan Curran, it is.