AI Innovations Take Off in 2023: Chatbots Go Viral, Governments Address Risks
• Multimodality - AI systems can now process different data types like text, images, video, and audio. This allows more capabilities, like GPT-4 generating images from text prompts.
• Constitutional AI - A new technique to align AI systems to human values by having them score responses based on a "constitution" of rules, instead of needing human feedback.
• Text-to-video - Startups like Runway and Pika are creating text-to-video capabilities that could transform user-generated content and make video production accessible to anyone.
• Chatbots went viral - 2023 was the year chatbots like ChatGPT became mainstream.
• Governments taking AI risk seriously - Governments began addressing risks from advanced AI, like human alignment challenges.