January 1, 2024
Microsoft declared in January, 2023 that it will be spending $10 billion over a number of years on OpenAI. This includes funding for the construction of supercomputers, the integration of OpenAI technology into Microsoft's services, and the development of services designed to enable programmers to create their own artificial intelligence applications. Additionally, everyone began utilizing ChatGPT in this month. The number of users surged from 266 million to 616 million, a 131% increase in only one month. In other developments, MIT researchers worked with Mass General Hospital to create a deep learning model that may use CT scan data to determine a patient's risk of lung cancer.
Google unveiled Bard, a conversational AI chatbot, as ChatGPT's rival on February 6. We'll be honest: The timing seemed off, as Microsoft was going to reveal its own AI-powered Bing the very next day. A few Google staff members even voiced concerns about the timing of the company's Bard announcement, calling it "rushed," "botched," and "un-Googley”. Many big software businesses were under intense pressure in February to provide alternatives to ChatGPT, which was taking over the market.
It seems like almost every business started unveiling its own AI solutions in March. Some were concerned that companies were releasing AI capabilities too soon. Microsoft sacked the team in charge of making sure AI tools were developed and deployed responsibly, which may have confirmed their concerns. Last but not least, UBC researchers developed an AI system for the healthcare sector that uses an analysis of physician notes to forecast the survival rates of cancer patients.
AWS users may now develop apps on top of generative AI models and personalize them with private data thanks to a feature that Amazon unveiled in April called Bedrock. This month, a lot of other businesses also started getting on the chatbot bandwagon. These included Expedia, which developed its own AI mobile chatbot, Binance, which introduced an AI-powered Crypto chatbot, and Sberbank, which is ChatGPT's Russian equivalent. TikTok revealed its AI capability, which lets users make AI-generated profile pictures. Furthermore, in the uncharted territory of generative AI, Samsung made headlines when its confidential information was exposed to ChatGPT. This led to other companies imposing limitations on the usage of ChatGPT for their own staff members going ahead.
Google made its Bard chatbot available to the general public in May. Additionally, Google unveiled its brand-new, access-limited Search Generative Experience. SGE will fundamentally alter how consumers interact with search results and access information on Google, even though it is still not publicly available. For the future of SEO, it was—and still is—a huge thing, and many content producers and SEO strategists revised their approaches.
Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise in July, allowing customers to utilize Bing Chat without worrying about private information being exposed online. Additionally, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, labeled “Your AI assistant at work.” Users may access their own business data using generative AI for $30 per user per month.
It should come as no surprise that Google announced their own Duet AI for Workspace in August at Google's Cloud Next'23, only months after Microsoft launched 365 Copilot. An AI-based tool for productivity, processes, and more effective meetings is called Duet AI for Workspace. Furthermore, Vertex AI and Duet AI in Google Cloud, the company's AI-optimized infrastructure, have been updated by Google. Finally, in August-related news, Google unveiled SynthID, a new watermarking tool that can identify artificial intelligence-generated photos and maybe help stop deep fakes.
Let's put an end to any conversations about OpenAI, Google, or Microsoft and focus instead on Meta. Since they were the stars of the September concert. Meta revealed numerous significant releases in September, including the introduction of AI stickers for stories and discussions. They released "Meta AI," a talking chatbot, into beta. You may have conversations with 28 AI "characters," such as Tom Brady as "Bru," Snoop Dogg as "Dungeon Master," and Kendall Jenner as "Billie." They unveiled their brand-new Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, which let you interact with Meta AI via voice activation and streaming.
President of the United States Joe Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence in October, marking a significant development in the field of government laws and AI. The 63-page document covers a wide range of AI-related issues, including algorithmic discrimination and its potential effects on civil rights, AI fraud, and the influence of AI on the job market. In terms of official AI instruction, this is among the first significant moves that the United States has seen.
OpenAI was the big deal at the beginning of the year, and it continues to be the big deal at the end, when co-founder and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman was abruptly sacked in mid-November, pandemonium broke out. Thereafter appointed head of Microsoft's new AI research division. Later brought back in as CEO of OpenAI with a fresh board of directors. Within a week, everything. In addition to the turmoil around hiring and firing, OpenAI introduced personalized GPTs, or customized versions of ChatGPT, in early November. These let anybody to design a personalized GPT for internal usage at their business. In addition, they have the ability to design stickers and make personalized workout plans. Not related to OpenAI news, Elon Musk unveiled Grok, a competitor to ChatGPT, in early November. Grok will eventually be available to X Premium+ users. On November 3, Musk stated on his X account that Grok's real-time information access over the X platform is one of its unique selling points. The first AI wearable gadget, the AI Pin, was finally released by Humane.
Early in December, Google unveiled Gemini, a multimodal AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4. Gemini notably outperformed GPT-4 on benchmarks established by AI scientists.
There you have it, then! A comprehensive year-end summary of the most notable AI-related articles from 2023.