2024 An AI Odyssey It's Not Letting Up

摘要

Welcome to 2024! 2023 was AI's "breakout year," where there's been explosive growth in generative AI tools. According to a McKinsey Global Survey 1, one third of respondents said their organizations are using generative AI regularly in at least one business function. Generative AI tools have risen from being a tech niche to a focus of company leaders, with 40 of respondents planning to increase their AI investment due to advances in generative AI. Generative AI has expanded from text-only generative AI to multimodal analysis of everything from code, to PDFs, to spreadsheets, to images, then, using that analysis to generate new multimodal output, text and images among these, but with even video and audio applications becoming more widespread. Well, if even the slow-moving large corporates are making sizeable efforts to steer their big ships into this uncharted but enticing new territory, I'm determined to exploit it to help me and educate me - in ways that were not even pipe dreams when I was, say, in high school.