What was the biggest thing to happen in the field of AI?

Reddit r/artificial 04/22/26, 03:01 PM News

Summary

Opinion piece arguing that AlphaGo and ChatGPT are the two most significant AI breakthroughs, with ChatGPT having the greatest everyday impact by making AI accessible to the masses.

I personally think it’s either AlphaGo or ChatGPT. AlphaGo showed to the whole world that AIs can be better than its creators in an area that people believed needed ‘intuition’. Most people don’t know go, but it somewhat showed the potential of AI to the world. DeepBlue was also kinda similar to it, but for some reason most people don’t think DeepBlue as “An AI that beat human at chess”, so I’m not counting it. ChatGPT was… on a different level. It was looked as revolutionary that a program can fluently speak and help solve problems it doesn’t specialize in. It made most people use AI in their everyday lives, so definitely takes the cake imo.

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