All AI Advancements of 2023
Last Updated on December 30, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
A recap of the research progress and important news in AI in 2023!
What a year it was!
A lot happened in the big tech as well as the research community in AI. OpenAI revealed its GPT-4 alongside its image generation capability DALL-E 3 and GPT-4Vision, Meta introduced their LLM model Llama 2, even Google unveiled their LLM models starting with Bard hosted on Bing and now Gemini, Stability AI released its video generation capability Stable Video Diffusion model, Elon Musk also made an announcement regarding their own LLM model Grok, and most recently Channel1, an AI news media was announced to go out early 2024, with almost fully AI automated and customizable news provided to the user. Yes, that was all in a single year in the industry. Let’s not forget the AI research community that also witnessed amazing advancements, which we will cover in this video.
On the flip side, this year also served some drama. There was the entire OpenAI controversy where they fired their CEO Sam Altman and then rehired him due to pressure from employees and the AI community. An AI pioneer, also known as one of the godfathers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, quit Google to warn humanity about the threats that AI might pose. Lastly, we witnessed controversy surrounding… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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