To say 2023 was a 12 months taken up largely by AI can be a large understatement. Following the discharge of ChatGPT on the very finish of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023.
Based on Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million energetic customers by January 2023, which was simply two months after it launched.
ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI, which is an AI firm that additionally produces the GPT mannequin that ChatGPT and plenty of different AI applied sciences run on. OpenAI had fairly the profitable — and eventful — 12 months.
In January, Microsoft introduced a multi-year, multi-billion greenback funding within the firm. Different bulletins all year long included providing a paid model of ChatGPT, an API for ChatGPT, and the launch of GPT-4.
OpenAI additionally teamed up with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft to type the Frontier Mannequin Discussion board in July. The group is devoted to securely and responsibly growing frontier AI fashions. The Discussion board defines these as “large-scale machine-learning fashions that exceed the capabilities presently current in probably the most superior present fashions, and may carry out all kinds of duties,” Google defined in a weblog submit.
In early November, the corporate hosted the primary OpenAI DevDay occasion, the place it made a number of bulletins, equivalent to the power for customers to now create their very own customized variations of ChatGPT for particular functions, a preview of GPT-4 Turbo, an up to date model of GPT-3.5 Turbo, the Assistants API, Whisper v3, and new multimodal capabilities throughout its AI fashions.
Then, later that month, the corporate was on the forefront of everybody’s curiosity when the board instantly fired CEO Sam Altman, which led to a spiral of occasions that in the end ended with Altman returning and the board being changed inside the week.
Plenty of different tech firms additionally introduced a number of capabilities that incorporate AI. As an example, Microsoft built-in ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and introduced Microsoft Copilot, which is an AI copilot that works throughout your complete Home windows platform. Google additionally introduced Bard, its response to the AI-enabled Bing, and in December it introduced a brand new multimodal mannequin known as Gemini. And Amazon introduced Amazon Bedrock, a platform for constructing generative AI purposes.
This wasn’t restricted to simply the large gamers in tech. Practically each firm introduced they have been integrating AI into their merchandise indirectly, together with Atlassian, Boomi, Dell, JetBrains, MongoDB, Oracle, ServiceNow, Slack, Stack Overflow, Vercel, and Zenhub.
The AI-assisted growth instrument GitHub Copilot (which existed earlier than ChatGPT) was additionally up to date to make the most of the GPT-4 mannequin. Copilot Chat was additionally introduced into beta, enabling builders to ask questions on their code and get explanations and code options. The corporate additionally introduced a preview of GitHub Copilot Enterprise, which is anticipated to be usually obtainable in February 2024.
Ending out the 12 months, there have been a number of organizations and governments working to advance AI safely. The White Home issued an Government Order on AI in October, which “establishes new requirements for AI security and safety, protects People’ privateness, advances fairness and civil rights, stands up for shoppers and staff, promotes innovation and competitors, advances American management world wide, and extra.”
At first of December, Meta and IBM introduced that they have been forming the AI Alliance, a gaggle of over 50 organizations “throughout trade, startup, academia, analysis and authorities coming collectively to assist open innovation and open science in AI.”
Additionally in December, the European Union reached a provisional settlement for brand spanking new AI regulation.
“The draft regulation goals to make sure that AI programs positioned on the European market and used within the EU are protected and respect elementary rights and EU values. This landmark proposal additionally goals to stimulate funding and innovation on AI in Europe,” the European Council wrote in a press launch.