What technology has come out in the last decade that isn't an increment or miniaturization?
We are in a transformative moment right now with GPT3 onwards, as great as anything in the computer era.
However… I don’t think it counts exactly. When you look at the trillions that have been dumped into basically “ take the best and brightest in the world, and then get them to increase advertising performance by 1% a year” and the money effort and time put into AI, thst the big players were caught completely off guard by AI, it’s more of a mistake than an organic technology evolution.
Other than AI, what seriously happened in the last decade? Where in terms of user product has tech innovated?
I'm not convinced.
Love it, hate it, whatever, but it completely revolutionized what is practically access to "everything". You will be hard pressed to find an American consumer, from the richest guy to homeless people on the street that don't have a mobile communications device on their person with a touch screen and instant access to the collective works of the world.
The iPhone by itself as a stand alone business would be larger than Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds among other revolutionary businesses.
Maybe (maybe) ChatGPT will do something similarly transformative (I’m sus as the kids say).
LLMs/generative AI could be game changing although I'm somewhere on the fence between this year's hype and this will change everything. Autonomous driving could be pretty radical as well but it would have to be pretty general purpose and that doesn't seem close to reality.
Last ten years? Maybe something in deep learning.