Trends in AI -- 2023 Round-up – Towards AI

Originally published on Towards AI. Prophecies of the third AI winter early in 2022 -- or AI hitting a wall -- aged fast and poorly with DALL·E 2's announcement in April 2022, followed by many more text-to-image applications largely driven by Diffusion Models, a very productive area for Computer Vision research and beyond. The year 2022 in AI was defined by a strong upward trend. Moreover, large Language Models proved to be an even more fertile area with several papers significantly expanding on their capabilities: Retrieval Augmentation, Chain-of-Thought prompting, Mathematical Reasoning, Reasoning Bootstrapping. Language Models research is far from over.