AI models will become smaller and faster
They will improve in plenty of other ways, too
By Abby Bertics
Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) reached fever pitch in 2023. In the six months after OpenAI’s launch in November 2022 of ChatGPT, the internet’s most famed and effective chatbot, the topic “artificial intelligence” nearly quadrupled in popularity on Google’s search engine. By August 2023, one third of respondents to the latest McKinsey Global Survey said their organisations were using generative ai in at least one capacity.
How will the technology develop in 2024? There are three main dimensions on which researchers are improving AI models: size, data and applications.
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This article appeared in the Science and technology section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2024 under the headline “What’s next for AI research?”
