Greg Isenberg: the first AI was a 2021-frozen internet scrape that forgot you at half capacity
building_brocks · x · 2026-10-14
- Greg Isenberg riffs that we'll tell our kids the first AI was basically a giant scrape of the internet frozen in 2021: it couldn't go online, forgot who you were when you closed the tab, couldn't see photos or hear your voice, read only a few pages at once, did nothing but type back, and was 'at capacity' half the time.
- A viral self-aware contrast highlighting how far AI capabilities have come since the early ChatGPT era.
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