OpenAI’s ChatGPT started a revolution in artificial intelligence development and investment. Yet nine-tenths of the technology and services that’ve sprung up since could be gone in under a decade, according to the founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud and AI unit.
The problem is the US startup, celebrated for ushering AI into the mainstream, created “bias” or a skewed understanding of what AI can do, Wang Jian told Bloomberg Television. It fired the popular imagination about chatbots, but the plethora of applications for AI goes far beyond that. Developers need to cut through the noise and think creatively about applications to propel the next stage of AI development, said Wang, who built Alibaba’s now second-largest business from scratch in 2009.
