The Pace of AI Progress [Revisited]
A look at AI progress within consumer tools and models. Updated with the biggest developments of 2023.
Happy 2024, crew!
I trust your holidays were full of family gatherings, joyful gift exchanges, and more sugar than is healthy or reasonable, as is tradition.
To ease us all into the new year, I want to dust off this ancient article from October 2022:
Already back then, I felt things were moving too fast, and that was a month before ChatGPT hit the scene.
So I want to ring in 2024 by taking a few extracts from the original post and appending them with the many shenanigans of 2023.
It’s quite a fun exercise to compare the 2022 and 2023 snapshots.
If you want just the “new” stuff, you can simply skip to the ”Early 2024” Daniel part within each section.
Let’s go!
📝 1. Progress in text AI (LLMs)
“Late 2022” Daniel
AI copywriting software has existed in some form for years, but it wasn’t until the end of 2021 that things got truly impressive.
What’s available now…
In Nov…