My Top 5 Predictions for AI in 2022

Ethics is at the center of AI research more than ever. We have a better understanding of the risks of harm language models entail -- companies keep improving language models making them not just bigger but smarter and more efficient, multimodal systems are more common (e.g. Google's MUM and OpenAI's DALL·E), and real-world AI is taking leaps forward -- and backward. All in all, AI has maintained or even accelerated the pace of progress we've seen throughout the last decade. The AI community will bring new promising developments and impressive breakthroughs, some of which we can foresee.