>iPhone fundamentally redefined what a cellphone and a portable computer could be, as did the iPad, creating entirely new consumer and business use cases almost immediately. >So, what exactly has generative AI actually done? Where are the products? No, really, where are they? What's the product you use every day, or week, that uses generative AI, that truly changes your life? If generative AI disappeared tomorrow — assuming you are not somebody who actively builds using it — would your life materially change?

I think ChatGPT and similar generative AI did fundamentally redefine what software could be. Everyone rushed to implement generative AI into every software. Even MS Paint has AI now. Before this, the idea that you would have it was unthinkable.

If it doesn't make any money, that's a separate issue.

>If generative AI disappeared tomorrow — assuming you are not somebody who actively builds using it — would your life materially change?

To put it in another way, you could live without the ability to drag and drop, but that doesn't mean it hasn't redefined user interfaces.