AI Then & Now
Sort AI abilities into what computers could do long ago and what is brand new.
AI Then & Now
AI keeps growing fast. Some things computers have done for a very long time — others are brand-new superpowers. For each ability, decide: then or now?
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Ability 1 of 8
Add up a thousand numbers in the blink of an eye.
How does it actually work?
For most of computing history, machines were brilliant at fast, exact, rule-following tasks — and hopeless at anything creative or open-ended. Writing, drawing, chatting, and imagining all stayed firmly on the human side.
In just the last few years that line moved enormously. The frontier of AI is the edge of what is newly possible — and it keeps advancing. Knowing what is genuinely new helps you picture what might become possible next.