Three Years After ChatGPT: From chatbots to agents and other trends on the frontier of generative AI

Three years after the public launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot paradigm has undergone a transformation. The main mode of interacting with Large Language Models is no longer just a chat.

In this session, Dominik Lukeš, AI Consultant at the AI Competency Centre, will step back from day-to-day trends to look at how the landscape has shifted since 2022 and what the current frontier in what "AI can do" and what "we can do with AI" looks like. But even more importantly, what does 2025 look like that we did not imagine as recently as 2024.

The session will cover:

• Frontier vs history: How today’s leading models differ from the first wave (capabilities, reliability, cost, deployment patterns) and what has stayed surprisingly constant.
• New model ecosystem: The landscape of new frontier models and their capabilities, reasoning, agentic capabilities and the rise of open models.
• Transcending the single chat: From models outputting text to models using tools, working in loops as agents and orchestrating complex workflows.
• Beyond chat interfaces: From reading text in a chat to LLM-generated interfaces and vibe coded tools to explore meanings. 
• Multimodality: How we've "solved" speech and video recognition and generation.
• Platforms and industry structure: Who are the key players now, who is on the rise and who has fallen away?
• Implications for academic practice and knowledge: What this means for how we do research and learn about the knowledge it generates.