The Year I Became an Avatar
2023 will remembered for many things, but the evolution of AI might take the cake for being the most memorable.
A whirlwind year.
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2023 will remembered for many things, but AI might take the cake for being the most memorable. In a special video for Bloomberg Opinion, Parmy Olson takes us through the year in AI. It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT launched a little more than a year ago — and it’s even harder to imagine what it will look like in a year. Suddenly, everyone could get answers to any question in beautifully human prose. Midjourney allowed us to conjure any image we could think of — from a raccoon in space, to a lifelike portrait of Muhammed Ali. And soon enough, humans had a hard time distinguishing genuine images of historic figures from AI-generated ones: