The hype surrounding the rise (then fall) of crypto currencies and Web 3.0, alongside the all-too-early excitement around the Metaverse, had stolen all the limelight from AI.
A branch of AI research called generative AI reached a tipping point, generating images and writing text responses to user prompts that were beyond the sophistication and accuracy of anything produced by machines in the past. This culminated in OpenAI's release of ChatGPT - a free-to-use text chatbot - late in 2022, which has shown remarkable results ranging from answers to essay questions to writing song lyrics in the style of Taylor Swift. Baby steps of crypto regulation not enough to spur asset management interest But what is really game-changing here? What impact will it hav...
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