AI has been talked about everywhere and is being incorporated everywhere, but it is often embedded in places many people do not even realize or cannot see. Generative AI was such a sea change because it gave the public AI that they could easily touch, feel, and interact with.

When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, it felt like magic. It unleashed an even more tremendous appetite and fascination with AI technology.

Marketing and advertising caught wind of that fascination and billed AI as a panacea that could deliver magical results. Big promises and outrageous predictions were made.

Despite the promise, AI is not magic -- however, I believe it is inevitable. We are in the confusing phase of AI evolution where we cannot yet see exactly how it is going to progress. Like any disruptive technology, there is infinite potential.