From image generators to language models, 2023 will be the year of AI - Vox

A few years ago, I'd sometimes find myself needing to answer the question, "Why does Future Perfect, which is supposed to be focused on the world's most crucial problems, write so much about AI?" After 2022, though, I don't often have to answer that one anymore. This was the year AI went from a niche subject to a mainstream one. In 2022, powerful image generators like Stable Diffusion made it clear that the design and art industry was at risk of mass automation, leading artists to demand answers -- which meant that the details of how modern machine learning systems learn and are trained became mainstream questions. Meta pushed releases of both Blenderbot (which was a flop) and the world-conquering, duplicitous Diplomacy-playing agent Cicero (which wasn't).