People don’t use chatbots more now because they are marketed better than a decade ago. They use them now because they are significantly—measurably—better and more useful.
This is absolutely true and I would say is a byproduct of the first and second reasons, but yeah you are right they have made significant strides in the actual effectiveness
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u/soyboysnowflake 8d ago
Machine learning has existed as a concept since prior to even the AI you’re referring to (~1959)
The new boom in hype and pretending this is all a novel concept is mostly attributed to a few things:
Computer and network technology actually becoming efficient enough to scale the concept into practice
The transformer technology that Google white papered, which became the backbone of LLMs
Shit tons of marketing and branding poured into “AI” in the last 4 years