It’s a well-known psychological phenomenon: that time seems to slow down if you experience lots of new and unusual events. For example, if you are travelling across Asia, a week can seem like a month, and a month like a year, as you encounter so many different landscapes, peoples, climates, languages, cities, and that deep-fried algae you ate in Laos. All the events packed together somehow dilate the sense of time’s passing.
The more you think about this technology, the more mind-spinning it becomes
The same goes for technology, especially rapidly advancing tech, like AI. Sometimes it feels, paradoxically, like AI has stopped advancing – maybe you feel that right now – but that’s only because time has slowed down for us, as we have become dazzled by all the amazing new AI leaps, occurring on an almost weekly basis.
For example, ChatGPT, which first brought AI truly into the public gaze, was only launched in late 2022, not even two years ago.
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