The machines haven’t taken over the planet, just yet. But artificial intelligence certainly made its mark in 2024. There were Nobel Prizes, robo-teachers, deepfake fraudsters and, incredibly, computers that doubled their processing power every few months.
CGTN’s Michael Marillier takes a look at some of the key moments.
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CGTN’s Michael Marillier takes a look at some of the key moments.
READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4iVeiP5
#AI #tech #ChatGPT
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00:00Imagine you could double your knowledge in a single year.
00:06For humans, it's a fantasy, but for AI, it's a reality.
00:11Some AI models now process twice as much data as they did just six months ago.
00:17They can handle massive amounts of information, allowing them to learn faster than ever.
00:22ChatGPT4, for example, was built on a huge database.
00:27Some reports suggest more than one trillion pieces of data.
00:31That's one, followed by 12 zeros.
00:34Clearly, AI is getting smarter, and it's making us smarter as well.
00:40The scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry used AI, training it to
00:45predict millions of chemical reactions in our bodies.
00:49That discovery could pave the way for life-saving drugs and vaccines.
00:53AI is also changing the way we do business.
00:57Research firm McKinsey asked companies around the world if they used generative AI.
01:02In other words, AI that creates content.
01:04In 2023, 33% said yes.
01:08This year, it was 65%.
01:11But there's another side to this technology.
01:15You could say a dark side.
01:17AI can already do some tasks faster and cheaper than humans.
01:22Experts say it could soon perform 30% of jobs in advanced economies like the US and Britain.
01:29That doesn't mean all those jobs will disappear, but there could be a ripple effect, with many
01:34workers having to accept lower wages because it's easy to replace them.
01:40There are other risks.
01:41Fraudsters are using AI to create deepfakes, digital avatars that trick people by assuming
01:47someone else's identity.
01:50Meanwhile, the mother of a suicide victim has gone to court, claiming an AI chatbot
01:55encouraged her son to kill himself at the age of 14.
01:59Governments around the world are now trying to manage the dangers.
02:03China, for example, has developed laws to stop the use of deepfakes.
02:08It's also drafting laws to regulate AI as a whole.
02:12Meanwhile, the European Union has launched the Artificial Intelligence Act, designed
02:16to protect human rights.
02:18It's not clear if all these regulations will work, but one thing is clear.
02:23AI is here to stay.
02:26Michael Merilia, CGTN, London.