"Every single person I know working in AI these days (in both the academy and industry) has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment."
This does not ring true to me at all. Anecdotally, it feels the rush to get into AI (in both industry and academia, for both individuals and organizations) peaked around 2016-2020, post-AlexNet/ResNet, around the time Transformers became very popular. Hiring for ML research roles in particular definitely slowed down in 2021, and 2022 of course saw a broader course correction across all of tech.
That said, I do agree that ChatGPT may be the "first iPhone moment of AI", in that is the first mainstream, end-user application of deep learning that millions of people have really engaged with.
DallE->StableDiffusion->Midjourney has occurred simultaneously and although it’s not as profound as ChatGPT, is definitely compounding the cultural impact of end-user AI. But probably social media AI filters are a yet bigger cultural impact on most people.
This does not ring true to me at all. Anecdotally, it feels the rush to get into AI (in both industry and academia, for both individuals and organizations) peaked around 2016-2020, post-AlexNet/ResNet, around the time Transformers became very popular. Hiring for ML research roles in particular definitely slowed down in 2021, and 2022 of course saw a broader course correction across all of tech.
That said, I do agree that ChatGPT may be the "first iPhone moment of AI", in that is the first mainstream, end-user application of deep learning that millions of people have really engaged with.