AI: Five Years of Transformation — and the Next Five to Come
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By Alexander Ziwahatan Founder, Omnithion | Candidate for Governor of Oregon Looking Back: The AI Leap of the Last Half-Decade Five years ago, in 2020, artificial intelligence was impressive — but limited. Models like GPT-3 could generate text, but their reasoning was shallow, their accuracy inconsistent, and their “intelligence” still clearly artificial. AI adoption in business was cautious, experimental, and often confined to niche applications. Since then, the pace of change has been nothing short of exponential. Between 2020 and 2025, we’ve witnessed: Language Models That Think in Layers From GPT-3 to GPT-4, GPT-4o, and beyond, AI went from “autocomplete on steroids” to systems capable of multi-step reasoning, context retention, and dynamic problem-solving. Multimodal Intelligence AI can now process and generate not just text, but images, audio, video, and code in real time — seamlessly moving between modalities. Practical Integration Tools like ChatGPT, Claud...