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As we look back at 2022, it’s clear that the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made some very important strides. From breakthroughs in natural language processing and computer vision to improved adoption of AI by businesses, we’ve seen several milestones.

It’s no doubt that AI will continue its explosive growth into 2023. However, given the rapid pace of change, it’s important to separate meaningful advancements from distracting fads.

What are the top AI trends and fads for 2023? What’s one thing business leaders must stop doing to unlock business value from AI? Hear predictions from 10 experts, including ChatGPT AI!

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Text-to-image AI exploded this year as technical advances greatly enhanced the fidelity of art that AI systems could create. Controversial as systems like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 are, platforms including DeviantArt and Canva have adopted them to power creative tools, personalize branding and even ideate new products.

But the tech at the heart of these systems is capable of far more than generating art. Called diffusion, it’s being used by some intrepid research groups to produce music, synthesize DNA sequences and even discover new drugs.

So what is diffusion, exactly, and why is it such a massive leap over the previous state of the art? As the year winds down, it’s worth taking a look at diffusion’s origins and how it advanced over time to become the influential force that it is today. Diffusion’s story isn’t over — refinements on the techniques arrive with each passing month — but the last year or two especially brought remarkable progress.

Could the AI bot one day replace the search engine?

Three weeks ago, an artificial intelligence research laboratory, Open AI, unveiled its experimental chatbot ChatGPT. Though far away from perfection, a look at its capabilities has been sufficient to send a red alert to Google about how AI can upend its business. Sundar Pichai, the CEO at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has now directed multiple groups to focus on addressing this threat, Business Insider.

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Photonic data-processing is well-suited to the age of deep learning | Science & technology.

A smattering of stars scattered throughout the center of the Milky Way is the remnants of the ancient galactic core, when our galaxy was still new.

Using measurements from the most accurate three-dimensional map of the galaxy ever compiled, as well as a neural network to probe the chemical compositions of over 2 million stars, a team of astronomers have identified 18,000 stars from our galaxy’s infancy, when it was just a compact collection of proto-galaxies coming together to dream of bigger things.

Hints of this stellar population have been identified in previous studies.

Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense.

Recently, Harvard researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters.

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Computer, car etc also created lots of new jobs.

A new report from the World Economic Forum projects that machines will handle half of the workplace tasks by 2025.

Humanity is on the edge of an unprecedented transformation, and few of us are prepared for how quickly artificial intelligence will change our lives. Here’s how Stoic thinking can help us embrace the coming revolution and thrive in a vastly different world.

by Phil Van Treuren

“Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you’ve already seen… he world is nothing but change.”

2022 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence.
The 13th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA*AI 2022), Guadalajara, Mexico, hold on September 22–24.

Date: September 22

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