The pace of AI improvements is breathtaking. We are living through another "temporal compression event" where generational technological change is condensed into months rather than years. Since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT to the public on November 30, 2022, I have tracked AI's evolution as both a practitioner and author. And periodically, I've found it useful to step back and identify the inflection points that actually bent the trajectory of the industry, the economy, an