While AI has existed for over 2 decades, it was confined to the corporate business houses, tech startups and secret military or government programs until now. You may have experienced marketing AI from companies like Google/Facebook when advertisements of products (you searched for) suddenly started showing up on your devices everywhere, everytime or you heard of some breakthroughs in medical technology on how AI programs cured diseases or mapped our DNA structures. As you can see, it was confined to the “super brainy” and “expensive” minds and labs. The common people, called users, merely utilized services, products, information out of these programs and projects.
Initially it evoked awe, then ignorance, then fear, and then the realization that AI will not just stay, it will become a way of life. From the super tech labs of the Fortune 500 companies, AI is right there at your disposal, not just as a user but as a creator, collaborator and contributor to the ecosystem. How cool is that?