The timeline below tracks just mentions of "AI" or "chatbot", but not mentions of newer terms like "models" or the names of the companies and their major products themselves, showing how even just discussion of AI itself entered the mainstream lexicon in early 2023:
Let's zoom into the 2022-present period and look in more detail at the underlying coverage drivers:
Annotate this timeline with brief explanations of the major trends. Make the annotations look like professional journalistic annotations. Annotated ALL of the sustained surges in coverage with the events that most likely drove them.
How about "chatbots"?
Here we can see the catalyst that drove the rise in AI coverage is, unsurprisingly, OpenAI and ChatGPT:
