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A Brief AI Retrospective on 2023 & What We'll See in 2024

12/23/23

Editorial team at Bits with Brains

Generative AI dominated headlines and discussions throughout 2023, with the release of models like GPT-4, Google's Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, and a wave of innovative applications leveraging this technology across industries.

We saw tremendous AI advances in 2023, especially in generative models like GPT-4 and imaginative applications across sectors. ChatGPT took the world by storm starting in late 2022, showcasing remarkable human-like conversational abilities. This fueled intense competition between tech giants to release rival chatbots, like Google's Bard. OpenAI also revealed the more capable GPT-4 in March.


Meanwhile, AI art exploded thanks to models like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E 2 which can generate highly creative images from text prompts. Adobe launched AI-powered generative tools in their creative apps as well. The rapid progress in models like these is enabling new forms of creativity and productivity.


Multimodal AI combining strengths across vision, language and other modalities also drove new products and services. For instance, Meta introduced video manipulation models while OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT to understand images. Multimodal AI is taking AI assistants and content creation to the next level.


Importantly, AI is also becoming more democratized and accessible beyond just experts. ChatGPT's free preview enabled enthusiasts to build creative applications, while DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion brought AI art generation to the masses. Tools like GitHub Copilot lower the barrier for software developers.


However, the exponential growth in capabilities increased calls for ethics and regulation. Groups like the AI Safety Support Network formed to keep AI beneficial, while the EU unveiled landmark regulations. There is growing pressure for responsible AI development.


Collaborative open-source AI development also accelerated. Microsoft invested $10 billion into OpenAI, while jointly open-sourcing large language models like LLaMA 2. On the vision side, Stable Diffusion allows training custom AI art models. Open-source innovations empowered rapid progress. At the beginning of 2023, there were no open-source models remotely competitive to ChatGPT. By December, there were several. 


Real-world AI made contributions across healthcare through startups like PathAI, sustainability via companies like Gridware, and sciences through platforms like AlphaFold. It is increasingly transcending hype with meaningful impacts.


Better hardware, datasets and techniques like few-shot learning drove the compounding growth. Specialized chips from Cerebras and SambaNova accelerated training for models with trillions of parameters. Efficient methods helped combat issues like AI's carbon footprint as well.


Conversational AI took off through chatbots like ChatGPT and voice assistants. Microsoft integrated it into Bing search while Google previewed the Bard chatbot. Advances in computer vision also fueled creative applications across image generation, editing and more. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning milestones mastered games and robotics, pushing AI's decision-making skills.


As we enter 2024, major healthcare, generative AI like GPT-5, multimodal, quantum AI, robotics and regulatory advances are predicted to unlock even more powerful and collaborative AI transforming how we live and work.


Sources:

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/2024-predictions-about-artificial-intelligence

https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/key-ai-trends-to-look-for-in-2024

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/11/01/the-top-5-artificial-intelligence-trends-for-2024/

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-most-important-ai-innovations-of-2024-012f2e59a890?gi=503590723573

https://www.raconteur.net/technology/opinion-ai-trends-2024

https://www.flexos.work/learn/the-top-6-must-know-ai-trends-for-2024

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-7-key-insights-predictions-ai-2024-predli-be46f


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