There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt.

“Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.”

About three years back, Ankur Warikoo shared a post that was not written by him or his team. Generative AI wrote it, an early version of chat GPT. It was like magic. This was my first encounter with a Bot article.

For the last two years, an age-old debate has only become more profound: Can AI replace humans? Is AI creative enough? Does it have empathy and emotions?

These days I often read posts and articles that have sentences like “in this age and time”, or, words like “delve” and “implications”. Or when someone just neatly and professionally summarizes my post in the comments, I get my answers. AI is working! It is functional. Creativity is subjective. Creativity is like the internet in a third-world nation.

But now it is getting overwhelming. There are AI chatbots that coach, code, and create graphics and videos. Some people offer online courses and vouch to build you into an AI tool Ninja. When “courses” appear on the scene, you have to realize that it’s too late for you. When courses appear, there is a sense of urgency. This is when excitement, hype, and FOMO meets capitalism.

How did this all happen?

Gradually, then suddenly.