Tech-utopia was often portrayed (by enthusiasts) in the past as one where the robots took care of the mundane boring tasks, leaving the human masters to sit in leisure and pursue their creative artistic endeavours.
From that background, it's ironic that some of the first successful mass applications of AI have been in fiction-writing and art, which are among the first things people think of as creative endeavours.
@digital_carver I wouldn't call those "first successful mass applications of AI". Google search, targeted advertisement, social media recommendations, netflix recommendations, fraud detection in banks, etc. etc. The list goes on. AI algorithms have been omni-present in our lives for decades now...
@vertexrage
Yeah that part of the post was tough to word correctly, what I meant was popular use of AI by common people, AI that everyone knows to be AI and knowingly uses. For a lot of non-tech people, I think GPT-3 (via AI dungeon) and DALL-E/stable diffusion (via NovelAI and others) was the first AI system they knowingly used, their first taste of AI they could get their hands on and try.
