(NEXSTAR) — Have you noticed this? As more and more technology companies roll out their own AI products and services, there’s one thing that’s been pretty common among many of the competitors: they all use the sparkle emoji in relation to the use of artificial intelligence. But why? Currently, you can see a sparkle emoji beside suggestions, which appear at the top of results whenever you perform a google search. These generative responses have many businesses and organizations — in addition to the fact that AI Overview recently suggested that drivers remedy their faulty blinkers by Sparkle emojis in the logo of Google’s (previously known as “Bard”), Spotify’s shuffle button, Adobe Express, OpenAI’s GPT-4, and Zoom’s AI Companion note-taker.
Though the emoji hasn’t always been associated with AI, the trend appears to have started sometime around 2018. As explained by YouTuber , one of the earliest examples of AI sparkling was the 2018 introduction of the “sparkle button” on the social media network then known as Twitter. Back then, the allowed users the ability to switch between chronological tweets and algorithmically selected “Top Tweets.
” Then, in 2020, there was feature, which let users touch up photos using AI, and it also included sparkles. But all that is happening . Where did the sparkle emoji come from? And what was it supposed to mean? Going back to the origins of the sparkle emoji will lead you to Japan in 1999.
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