Less than five years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine that one of the most impactful and transformative advances in artificial intelligence would come from what, on the surface, looks like one of the simplest forms of AI, that deals with one of the most simplest form of data: text.

At the time, much of the excitement in AI was centred around increasingly sophisticated models for computer vision, robotics, reinforcement learning, speech, and other specialised domains. Computer vision systems were becoming remarkably good at recognising objects, generating images, understanding scenes, and even creating entirely new visual content.

One of the most challenging things I have found as a parent is being available whenever my son need help. While I would love to be there whenever my son asks for help with his schoolwork, work and other commitments don’t always make that possible.

I often find it difficult to ask him to wait when he comes to me for help, particularly when he is motivated and wants to learn something in that moment. And I am sure that, at times, having to wait has also made him a little less motivated.