What to expect from AI in 2023?

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AI and Machine Learning

What to expect from AI in 2023 (6 minute read)As a rather commercially successful author once wrote, “the night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope.” It’s fitting imagery for AI, which like all tech has its upsides and downsides. Art-generating models like Stable Diffusion, for instance, have led to incredible outpourings of creativity, powering apps and even entirely new business models. On the other hand, its open source nature lets bad actors use it to create deepfakes at scale — all while artists protest that it’s profiting off of their work. What’s on deck for AI in 2023?

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models (4 minute read)The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU.

How Machine Learning Is Transforming Psychological Science (6 minute read)Today, we can train computer programs to give us directions, suggest streaming movies we might enjoy, and even vacuum our living rooms. But machine learning is emerging as far more than a source of convenience; it’s helping scientists better understand our minds. The growing use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is generating trailblazing discoveries and theories about human cognition, behavior, personality, and mental health. This advanced technology stands to transcend the limits of scientists’ observational capabilities.

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Business

OpenAI Positioned Itself As The AI Leader In 2022. But Could Google Supersede It In ‘23? (6 minute read)Generative AI had its year. And new developments are still going at a breakneck pace. Less than six months ago, OpenAI launched DALL·E 2, an AI system that can generate images from a natural language description, in beta. A key achievement of OpenAI has been its position as the market leader in generative AI. GPT, for instance, powers virtually every AI-powered copywriting assistant currently on the market. One of those assistants, Jasper AI, recently said it has close to 100,000 paying customers, with a 100% increase in annual recurring revenue. Jasper runs off OpenAI’s GPT model.

Will Google Search be disrupted by ChatGPT? (6 minute read)The release of ChatGPT has triggered a new wave of discussions about the end of the era of traditional search engines. Many people believe that AI-powered chatbots have a real potential to replace traditional search engines. In this article, I want to discuss whether such conversations are speculation.

AI goes mainstream, but return on investment remains elusive (12 minute read)A decade of big data investments, combined with cloud scalability, the rise of more cost effective processing and the introduction of advanced tooling, has catapulted machine intelligence to the forefront of technology investments. No matter what job you have, your operation will be AI powered within five years and machines may be doing your job in the future. But business value realization has been a challenge for most organizations because of a lack of skills, complexity of programming models, immature technology integration, sizable up front investments, ethical concerns and lack of business alignment.

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Ethics

That Popular AI Photo App is Stealing from Human Artists — and Worse (4 minute read)Are your social media streams currently packed with portraits of your friends and acquaintances rendered in various artistic styles? It seems like just about everyone is hopping on the Lensa bandwagon right now, using the photo editing app’s “Magic Avatar” add-on to produce fantasy portraits for a mere $3.99. Users simply upload 10 to 20 photos of their faces, and the app’s AI-powered image generating tool does the rest. It may seem like harmless fun, but some artists say the AI is stealing their work. Even worse, the app is generating sexualized images of minors, and users are unwittingly signing away the rights to their own images.

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