A.I. Is Having a ‘Netscape Moment’
Tech nerds see the current moment for artificial intelligence as similar to the time when the Netscape browser was released, stirring innovation.
But Netscape Navigator, developed by Marc Andreessen and released in 1994, let the general public see and smoothly browse web pages — quickly leading to the understanding that the internet could be used by us all.
That spawned the late-1990s dot-com boom, with the establishment of websites like eBay and Amazon, eventually giving rise to the internet that we know today.
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