AI boom

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Time Magazine cover featuring a ChatGPT conversation; mechanical dove image created in Midjourney; AlphaFold
2 performance, experiments, and architecture.

The AI boom,[1][2] or AI spring,[3][4] is an ongoing period of rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Prominent examples include protein folding prediction led by Google DeepMind and generative AI led by OpenAI.

History

In 2012, a

large language models saw increased usage in chatbot applications; text-to-image-models could generate images that appeared to be human-made;[13] and speech synthesis software was able to replicate human speech efficiently.[14]

According to metrics from 2017 to 2021, the United States outranks the rest of the world in terms of venture capital funding, the number of startups, and patents granted in AI.[15][16] Scientists who have immigrated to the U.S. play an outsize role in the country's development of AI technology.[17][18] Many of them were educated in China, prompting debates about national security concerns amid worsening relations between the two countries.[19]

Experts have framed AI development as a competition for economic and geopolitical advantage between the United States and China.[20] In 2021, an analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations outlined ways that the U.S. could maintain its position amid progress made by China.[21][22] In 2023, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies advocated for the U.S. to use its dominance in AI technology to drive its foreign policy instead of relying on trade agreements.[15]

Advances

Biomedical

There have been proposals to use AI to advance radical forms of human life extension.[23]

The AlphaFold 2 score of more than 90 in CASP's global distance test (GDT) is considered a significant achievement in computational biology[24] and great progress towards a decades-old grand challenge of biology.[25] Nobel Prize winner and structural biologist Venki Ramakrishnan called the result "a stunning advance on the protein folding problem",[24] adding that "It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted."[26][27]

The ability to predict protein structures accurately based on the constituent amino acid sequence is expected to accelerate drug discovery and enable a better understanding of diseases.[25][28][29] It went on to note that the AI algorithm could "predict the shape of proteins to within the width of an atom."[29]

Images and videos

An image generated by Stable Diffusion based on the text prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse"

Text-to-image models captured widespread public attention when OpenAI announced

transformer system, in January 2021.[30] A successor capable of generating complex and realistic images, DALL-E 2, was unveiled in April 2022.[31] An alternative text-to-image model, Midjourney, was released in July 2022.[32] Another alternative, open-source model Stable Diffusion, released in August 2022.[33]

Following other text-to-image models,

text-to-video platforms such as OpenAI's Sora, DAMO,[34] Make-A-Video,[35] Imagen Video[36] and Phenaki[37] can generate video from text as well as image prompts.[38]

Language

GPT-3 is a large language model that was released in 2020 by OpenAI and is capable of generating high-quality human-like text.[39] The tool has been credited with spurring and accelerating the A.I. boom following its release.[40][41][42] An upgraded version called GPT-3.5 was used in ChatGPT, which later garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge.[43] A new version called GPT-4 was released on March 14, 2023, and was used in the Microsoft Bing search engine.[44][45] Other language models have been released, such as PaLM and Gemini by Google and LLaMA by Meta Platforms.

In January 2023,

DeepL Write, an AI-based tool to improve monolingual texts, was released.[46] In December 2023, Gemini, the latest model by Google, was unveiled, claiming to beat previous state-of-the-art-model GPT-4 on most benchmarks.[47]

Music and voice

In 2016, Google DeepMind unveiled WaveNet, a deep learning network that produced English, Mandarin, and piano music.[48] ElevenLabs allowed users to upload voice samples and create audio that sounds similar to the samples. The company was criticized[by whom?] after controversial[among whom?] statements were generated based on the vocal styles of celebrities, public officials, and other famous individuals,[49] raising concerns[among whom?] that the technology could make deepfakes even more convincing.[50] An unofficial song created using the voices of musicians Drake and The Weeknd raised questions[among whom?] about the ethics and legality of similar software.[51]

Impact

The AI boom may have a profound cultural, philosophical,[52] religious,[53] economic,[54] and social impact,[55] as questions such as AI alignment,[56] qualia,[52] and the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI)[56] became widely prominent topics of popular discussion.[57]

Cultural

During the AI boom, different groups emerged, ranging from ones who want to accelerate AI development as quickly as possible to those that are more concerned about AI safety and would like to "decelerate".[58]

Dominance by tech giants

The commercial AI scene is dominated by American

innovator's dilemma-like replacement for Google Search. The company merged DeepMind and Google Brain, a rival internal unit, to accelerate its AI research.[63]

Intellectual property

Tech companies such as Meta, OpenAI and Nvidia have been sued by artists, writers, journalists, and software developers for using their work to train AI models.[64][65] Early generative AI chatbots, such as the GPT-1, used the BookCorpus, and books are still the best source of training data for producing high-quality language models. ChatGPT aroused suspicion that its sources included libraries of pirated content after the chatbot produced detailed summaries of every part of Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter and verbatim excerpts of paywalled content from The New York Times.[66][67]

Economic

The

market cap of Nvidia, whose GPU hardware is in high demand to train and use generative AI models, rose to over US$2.2 trillion, making it the world's third-largest company by market cap as of March 2024.[68]

Business

AI and, more generally, machine learning are exponentially improving in line with Moore’s law, making them more efficient than humans in specific tasks such as cancer detection. In business, machine learning resources, hardware or software can be bought and licensed off-the-shelf or as cloud platform services. [69]This enables wide and publicly available uses, spreading AI skills expeditiously. [70] Over half of businesses consider AI to be a top organizational priority and to be the most crucial technological advancement in many decades.[71]

Across industries, generative AI tools are becoming widely available through the AI boom and are increasingly utilized in businesses across seniority and regional levels. [72] A main area of use is data analytics. Seen as an incremental change, machine learning improves industry performances. [73] Businesses report AI to be most useful in reaching the valued objectives of increased process efficiency, improved decision-making and strengthening of existing services and products. [74]Through adoption, AI has already positively influenced revenue generation in multiple business functions. If adopted, businesses have experienced revenue increases of up to 16%, mainly in manufacturing, risk management and research and development functions. [75] However, the main monetary gains are generated by so-called “tech giants.” Their infrastructural advantage on “big data”, such as cloud services and AI chips, enables an increasingly dominating market presence. Mainly, Amazon and Microsoft experience above-normal revenues. [76] Further, “big tech” remains at the forefront of production and consumption, providing the foundation for other commercial and private users. They encompass AI production, the necessary infrastructure and AI consumption. [77]

With these positive developments, inaccuracy, cybersecurity and intellectual property infringement are considered to be the main risks associated with the boom, although not many actively attempt to mitigate the risk. [78]

AI and generative AI investments have been increasing with the boom since 2014, increasing from 18 Billion to 119 Billion in 2021. Most notably, the share of generative AI investments was around 30% in 2023. [79] Further, Generative AI businesses have seen considerable venture capital investments even though regulatory and economic outlooks remain dubious. [80]

Concerns

AI has the potential to be applied in various fields, including in education,[81] healthcare,[82] and transportation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has stated that AI "will be the most tremendous leap forward in quality of life for people that we've had", an aspect that "somehow gets lost from the discussion".[83] But as a dual-use technology, AI also carries risks of misuse by malicious actors. Numerous safety concerns have been expressed.[84] AI is expected by researchers of the Center for AI Safety to improve the "accessibility, success rate, scale, speed, stealth and potency of cyberattacks", potentially causing "significant geopolitical turbulence" if it reinforces attack more than defense.[84][85] Concerns have been raised about the potential capability of future AI systems to engineer particularly lethal and contagious pathogens.[86][87] The ability to generate convincing, personalized messages as well as realistic images may facilitate large-scale misinformation, manipulation, and propaganda.[88] Industry leaders have further warned in the statement on AI risk of extinction that humanity might irreversibly lose control over a sufficiently advanced artificial general intelligence.[89]

Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has also sparked interest in whether some future AI systems will be sentient or otherwise worthy of moral consideration,[90] and whether they should be granted rights.[91]

The AI boom is said to have started an arms race in which large companies are competing against each other to have the most powerful AI model on the market, with speed and profit prioritized over safety and user protection.[92][93] Large language models have been criticized for reproducing biases inherited from their training data, including discriminatory biases related to ethnicity or gender.[94] As AI becomes more sophisticated, it may eventually become cheaper and more efficient than human workers, which could cause technological unemployment and a transition period of economic turmoil.[95][11] Public reaction to the AI boom has been mixed, with some hailing the new possibilities that AI creates, its sophistication and potential for benefiting humanity;[96][97] while others denounced it for threatening job security,[98][99] and for giving 'uncanny' or flawed responses.[100]

The perceived race mindset among major AI companies like OpenAI, Google or Meta may potentially increase the risks associated with the development of artificial general intelligence.[92] While competition can foster innovation and progress, an intense race to outperform rivals may encourage the prioritization of short-term gains over long-term safety.[101]

Several incidents involving sharing of non-consensual deepfake pornography were noted. In late January 2024, deepfake images of American musician Taylor Swift proliferated. Several experts have warned that it's faster and more accessible, due to the relative ease of using the technology.[102] Canada introduced legislation at the federal level targeting sharing of non-consensual sexually explicit AI-generated photos, several provinces had already previously targeted this.[103] In the United States, the DEFIANCE Act of 2024 was introduced.[104]

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