Experts believe that the release of ChatGPT last year triggered a light bulb moment for AI, where the utility of the technology became readily apparent to people outside of tech. This is similar to the 19th century when electricity was put to work in practical ways that had a palpable impact on ordinary folks. The power of this approach lies in the linguistic user interface, which gives us the ability to interact directly with the AI. AI will be a property of every application going forward, and this is the moment where that starts to happen. However, Vishal Sikka, CEO and founder at Vianai Systems, thinks it’s a bit more complicated than that, especially for enterprise companies. He believes we might not be at that aha moment yet in business, and it could take longer than we think for this technology to mainstream inside companies, especially in mission-critical applications. AI is going to be table stakes for every company from now on, according to Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. This could change the way we think about how applications function and how we interact with them. The power of AI may have a profound impact on enterprise software moving forward, something every startup developing a product today needs to be thinking about. The current state of AI is an aha moment, and as with electricity, one that took some time to develop into practical applications.
