Yesterday’s unveiling of Gemini 3, Google DeepMind’s latest chatbot, is a sign of how rapidly AI has progressed in the three years since ChatGPT’s release, a leading tech writer argued.
Ethan Mollick said that in 2022, he was blown away by AI writing a limerick about otters in space. This time, he asked Gemini to demonstrate its abilities: It coded a playable otters-in-space game, and carried out graduate-level research. “The era of the chatbot is turning into the era of the digital coworker,” Mollick said.
The AI boom may yet prove to be a bubble — Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, warned that there were “elements of irrationality” in the rush to invest — but its technological progress is undeniable.