Artificial intelligence is now so ubiquitous that it can be hard to remember its public debut (with ChatGPT) occurred on November 30, 2022. In a little over 2 years, we have all gotten used to AI systems that can understand natural language requests, read our intentions, and produce lengthy and reasonably accurate creative responses in the form of text, images, and video. Most articles about AI in 2025 are about how to use these tools more effectively, or about the next upgrades that are coming, rather than about the amazing fact that we have these tools at all. Here's a look at how quickly AI tools have reached human-level capabilities, and in some cases exceeded them: If you are at least a little bit worried about this, you aren't alone. The American public is much less enthusiastic about AI's benefits, and has much greater concern about its risks, than the technology experts who are developing AI. Right now, a great deal of that worry is about job loss. Looking farth...