Papa Mike McRoberts

75 years.

Wow.

Radio, as in, you know, when you turn on the radio, 38 years to reach 50 million users.

Television took 13 years, and the World Wide Web, the internet, that took around four years to reach 50 million users.

Now, for Just Chat GPT, Just Chat GPT, which is only one of the AI agents, it reached 100 million users.

So it's double all the others in two months.

Two months to reach 100 million users.

And by the middle of last year, ChatGPT had more than 700 million weekly users and they were creating on average around two and a half billion messages a day.

So that's a year ago.

So it's just nuts how widespread this is.

And there's a reason for it, because unlike some of those other technologies, like with the phones and with television, where you had to build the infrastructure and the phone lines and all those bits and pieces that go with it, about 75% of the world has the internet now and uses the internet, so they're online.

That's why we've seen this massive growth in AI because it's so accessible and they can use that same infrastructure.

But it raises some really big questions.

One of them particularly is, who controls this?

Who controls the spread?

And when you've got a technology like that, which has just come on so quickly, there's been no time to make regulations like governments have done in the past with things like phone use or television or even the internet, where they had years to develop their restrictions and thoughts around that.

But that hasn't happened with AI.

And so it's a bit like the Wild West at the moment.

And how was she using it?

In what sense?