Amid a year of high points, challenges remain. How will AI developers deal with a looming data shortage, for instance?
Artificial intelligence enjoyed a banner year in 2024. The frontier technology captured awards, corralled investors, charmed Wall Street and showed that it could reason mathematically — even explaining differential equations.
It also drew the attention of global regulators, concerned about privacy and safety risks. Others worried that AI might soon evolve into artificial general intelligence (AGI) and then artificial superintelligence — surpassing human cognitive abilities. Catastrophic scenarios were posited and discussed: bioterrorism, autonomous weapons systems and even “extinction-level” events.
Here are 10 of 2024’s AI highlights.
