<story><title>The Age of AI has begun</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>&amp;gt; In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI&lt;p&gt;I guess it&amp;#x27;s not surprising since Microsoft was late to the game with IE, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting he never mentions &amp;quot;the internet&amp;quot; in this list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe he doesn&amp;#x27;t mention it because he didn&amp;#x27;t think it was revolutionary when it first appeared.&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1997&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;skeptics-cite-overload-of-useless-information-internet-arrives-at-a.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1997&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;skeptics-cite-overlo...&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;r4F8T&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;r4F8T&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  Even Bill Gates, the founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp. and widely regarded as the crown prince of the World Wide Web, was taken unawares by the Internet&amp;#x27;s grassroots acceptance.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In his book, &amp;quot;The Road Ahead&amp;quot; (not available on-line), Mr. Gates admitted that he believed the technology for &amp;quot;killer applications&amp;quot; was inadequate to lure consumers to the Internet.&lt;p&gt;Of course, like any smart person at the time, he changed his views as the internet became more popular and eventually mainstream.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Age of AI has begun</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>&amp;gt; In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI&lt;p&gt;I guess it&amp;#x27;s not surprising since Microsoft was late to the game with IE, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting he never mentions &amp;quot;the internet&amp;quot; in this list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>The internet never had its &amp;quot;aha&amp;quot; moment like AI is now. Most people didn&amp;#x27;t know or care about it until &lt;i&gt;decades&lt;/i&gt; into its existence.</text></comment>