Dec 28, 2022 05:20 PM
https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...s-of-2022/
INTRO: More than once this year, AI experts have repeated a familiar refrain: "Please slow down." AI news in 2022 has been rapid-fire and relentless; the moment you knew where things currently stood in AI, a new paper or discovery would make that understanding obsolete.
In 2022, we arguably hit the knee of the curve when it came to generative AI that can produce creative works made up of text, images, audio, and video. This year, deep-learning AI emerged from a decade of research and began making its way into commercial applications, allowing millions of people to try out the tech for the first time. AI creations inspired wonder, created controversies, prompted existential crises, and turned heads.
Here's a look back at the seven biggest AI news stories of the year. It was hard to choose only seven, but if we didn't cut it off somewhere, we'd still be writing about this year's events well into 2023 and beyond... (MORE - details)
COVERED:
April: DALL-E 2 dreams in pictures
July: Google engineer thinks LaMDA is sentient
July: DeepMind AlphaFold predicts almost every known protein structure
August: Stable Diffusion takes image synthesis open source
August: AI art wins a state fair competition, artists react
November: Meta’s CICERO masters Diplomacy
December: ChatGPT talks to the world
INTRO: More than once this year, AI experts have repeated a familiar refrain: "Please slow down." AI news in 2022 has been rapid-fire and relentless; the moment you knew where things currently stood in AI, a new paper or discovery would make that understanding obsolete.
In 2022, we arguably hit the knee of the curve when it came to generative AI that can produce creative works made up of text, images, audio, and video. This year, deep-learning AI emerged from a decade of research and began making its way into commercial applications, allowing millions of people to try out the tech for the first time. AI creations inspired wonder, created controversies, prompted existential crises, and turned heads.
Here's a look back at the seven biggest AI news stories of the year. It was hard to choose only seven, but if we didn't cut it off somewhere, we'd still be writing about this year's events well into 2023 and beyond... (MORE - details)
COVERED:
April: DALL-E 2 dreams in pictures
July: Google engineer thinks LaMDA is sentient
July: DeepMind AlphaFold predicts almost every known protein structure
August: Stable Diffusion takes image synthesis open source
August: AI art wins a state fair competition, artists react
November: Meta’s CICERO masters Diplomacy
December: ChatGPT talks to the world