AI is changing the world faster than most realize

The people building AI are saying—subtly and unsubtly—that the technology is advancing more rapidly than the vast majority of people realize. It’s likely we won't know how and how much AI will change the way we live, work and play until it already has. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers of AI," told BBC Radio 4 the technology is moving "very, very fast, much faster than I expected." Take ChatGPT. It took five days after launch for the chatbot to hit 1 million users. It took Facebook 10 months to get to 1 million users, and it took Twitter, now X, two years to hit the same milestone. Despite those forecasts, few appear to be taking the AI tsunami seriously enough.