2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren't sure what to do about it
ChatGPT was the catalyst for a year that took artificial intelligence mainstream
Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 — it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines.
Catalyzing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it.
“I would call this an inflection moment,” pioneering AI scientist Fei-Fei Li said. “2023 is, in history, hopefully going to be remembered for the profound changes of the technology as well as the public awakening. It also shows how messy this technology is.”
It was a year for people to figure out “what this is, how to use it, what’s the impact — all the good, the bad and the ugly," she said. PANIC OVER AI
