Hey, .
Welcome to the 2022 Artificialis wrapped up!
It's been a very busy year! So seat back, take a cup of coffee, let's go over what happened.
A little bit from me and Artificialis:
This year has been great: I got an offer from a big multinational and I managed to keep writing blog articles and working on personal projects, such as Hydra AI.
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AI in the world
Oof, what a year. I realized two main things:
- The tech space is evolving faster than ever, it's essential to keep track of what's going on.
- Tech is also slow at going mainstream and changing society at scale, we don't really know how and if a technology will change anything, the early hype is not enough to understand.
AI took over the world, let's see how:
The main breakthroughs definitely rely on generative AI, we witnessed:
- DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, we're barely scratching the surface with what we can achieve with them.
But that's definitely not all:
- AI took over biology, and Google releases the structure of every known protein, this will be huge in drug discovery and synthesis, cancer treatments, and more.
- Multimodality is definitely taking a big spot in the research space, like with DeepMind's GATO for example, a generalist agent.
- Meta open sourced a Large Language Model
- AI can now control plasma in nuclear reactors.
Of course, every rose has its thorns, and AI is no less. Let's go over various issues AI raised throughout 2022:
- The "good" old bias problem: AI is trained on the world, so we should ask ourselves "what is the truth?" or "what do we want the truth to be?". These kind of questions have arisen when Meta’s Galactica model spit out racist scientific research, or when the new, hyped Lensa App started objectifying women.
However, the most preoccupying thing (in my opinion) was when AI
designed new biochemical weapons!
All of these themes call for AI regulation, and the USA released the AI bill of rights this year. Yet, technology moves way faster than law, we'll see how that turns out.
Outside AI
Innovation isn't just related to AI & Machine Learning, let's see other incredible achievements from 2022:
- An incredible breakthrough in nuclear fusion: the first net-positive energy production
- The innovation of the year in aerospace: the James Webb Telescope. We can now peer 13 billion years back in time at ancient galaxies, still in their nursery. It can peek at exoplanets, seeing them directly where astronomers would have once had to reconstruct meager traces of their existence. It can teach us about how those stars and galaxies came together from primordial matter, something Hubble could only glimpse.
- Yale scientists succeeded in reviving cells in the hearts, liver, kidneys, and brains of pigs that had been lying dead in a lab for an hour.
'Till next month, you can find everyone here:
Thank you so much for spending this year with us, I hope to see you in your inbox in 2023!
Have a fantastic month and New Year's Eve!
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