Mary Meeker says artificial intelligence is growing faster than anything that came before it. The technology has spread rapidly across the globe and “AI leadership could beget geopolitical leadership.” The most famous internet analyst of the dot-com boom era says that and a lot more in a 340 page report on #Artificial Intelligence called “Trends – Artificial intelligence.” With colleagues at Bond, the venture capital firm she founded, Meeker reprises her 1996 “Internet Report,” for the AI era. Like other Meeker reports, this one covers a lot of ground, including the invention of the printing press and the introduction of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, and some things in between. It has little clear focus but provides lots of material to digest. Some of the sharper takeaways: Rising AI performance and falling costs is causing an explosion of users; momentum is growing for open-source models; ChatGPT has great expectations for its own future powers. And finally this: “AI is a compounder – on internet infrastructure, which allows for wicked-fast adoption of easy-to-use broad-interest services.” #ScholER #The Most Important Thing https://techcrunch.com/20..