AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

Microsoft and Google have since moved beyond search to put chatbot-based assistants into the hands of billions of people via their office software. The tech promises to summarize emails and meetings; draft reports and replies; generate whole slide decks--titles, bullet points, and pictures--in seconds. Microsoft and Meta released image-making models that let users generate shareable images of anything with a click. Google's new phones now use AI to let you edit photos to a degree never seen before, exchanging sad faces for happy ones and overcast afternoons for perfect sunsets. Never has such radical new technology gone from experimental prototype to consumer product so fast and at such scale.