Agreed that AI is transformative. That this for kids they grew up with the internet is their epoch moment that those of us they saw the internet come already had.

However… I don’t think it counts exactly. When you look at the trillions that have been dumped into basically “ take the best and brightest in the world, and then get them to increase advertising performance by 1% a year” and the money effort and time put into AI, thst the big players were caught completely off guard by AI, it’s more of a mistake than an organic technology evolution.

Other than AI, what seriously happened in the last decade? Where in terms of user product has tech innovated?

It's just "boring plumbing" but software server infrastructure (containers, Kubernetes, and everything cloud-native associated) has basically competely changed in the last 10 years.

Being able to rent computers by the hour was definitely a big change.

Arguably mainstream public cloud computing is a little more than a decade old but not by much. AWS was only announced in (late?) 2006.

But how do you increase advertising revenue? Isn‘t that also a ML problem in the end?

While possible, I'm not ready to put all my chips on that particular bet yet.

Hacker news in the iPhone launch was a riot.

Presumably. OpenAI was trying to convince the world that GPT1.0 was a danger to society. They tried the same scare/hype tactic again after that for literally every version they released.

I'm not convinced.