Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

Short answer: because chat is a shortcut to anthropomorphization in folks' brains. It's much easier to assign personality and intent to a chat than a floating head that needs to be 99.999% lifelike in order to not feel completely fake.

Not an actual pattern<p>AI cycle in 2012 started with alexnet<p>AI cycle in 2019 started with Stable Difffusion

Chat is perhaps the cheapest implementation you could ever build. It&#x27;s a linear interaction, easy to test, and arguably the easiest to encode&#x2F;decode (with a fixed set of inputs too). As an added bonus, it has a familiar, well-understood interface.

I&#x27;m curious about: alpha go, Watson, and the AI that &quot;conquered&quot; chess. Are those outliers, or part of a larger story? It feels to me a contemporary history of AI would mention those milestones.

Every chat begins with a big smile, yet AI has no face. You&#x27;ve been warning. Acts should be in accordenly

Uhm… The boom in AI with LLMs wouldn’t have happened without about a decade of major focus on images (both generative models and DNN models that blew traditional image processing out of the water), and planning&#x2F;optimization type problems (alpha go, chess, etc.). Seems incorrect to claim that chat starts every cycle.