AI News in 2023: a Digest
AI News in 2023: a Digest
An overview of the big AI-related stories from 2023
With 2023 over, we reflect on what’s happened in AI during this year.
January
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Self-Driving Cars Are a Natural Fit for Rural America
- AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure
- A Professional Artist Spent 100 Hours Illustrating This Book Cover, Only To Be Accused Of Using AI
- A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins
- Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
- Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care
- Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations
- Conservatives Are Panicking About AI Bias, Think ChatGPT Has Gone ‘Woke’
- Deepfake challenges ‘will only grow’
- Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it
- BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content
- The best use for AI eye contact tech is making movie stars look straight at the camera
February
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future
- The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
- OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT
- A Tech Race Begins as Microsoft Adds A.I. to Its Search Engine
- Meta, Long an A.I. Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom
- Alibaba tests ChatGPT rival as Chinese tech giants like Baidu race to build country’s best AI chatbot
- Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
- ChatGPT AI passes test designed to show theory of mind in children
- Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI
- Planning for AGI and beyond
- How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
- AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
March
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Will artificial intelligence replace your lawyer–and will its name be Harvey?
- Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger
- Announcing OpenChatKit
- Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now?
- Skydio soars to a $2.2 billion valuation after raising $230m Series E
- GPT-4
- Introducing Claude
- Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model
- Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses
- People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)
April
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads
- Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to ‘extraordinary’ abuse
- Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster
- Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
- Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence
- OpenAssistant RELEASED! The world’s best open-source Chat AI!
- Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals
- Where’s the AI Culture War?
- Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data
- Google to combine AI research units Google Brain, DeepMind
May
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3
Highlights:
- ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
- Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
- No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs
- Introducing PaLM 2
- Meta unveils A.I. ‘testing playground’ to help advertisers build campaigns
- U.S. Sanctions Drive Chinese Firms to Advance AI Without Latest Chips
- Next Steps for Neeva
- EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
- Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers’ strike
June
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2
Highlights:
- Europe approves landmark AI legislation, challenging tech giants’ power
- Paul McCartney says AI tools helped rescue John Lennon vocals for ‘last Beatles record’
- Meta announces Voicebox, a generative model for multiple voice synthesis tasks
- China’s ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year
- State Department considers generative AI for contract writing
- OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
- We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
July
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action over how it used people’s data
- ‘It’s not like science fiction any more’: Nasa aiming to make spaceships talk
- OpenAI Plans ChatGPT ‘Personal Assistant for Work,’ Setting Up Microsoft Rivalry
- How the Great AI Flood Could Kill the Internet
- NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms goes into effect
- EU and Japan look to partner on A.I. and chips as China ‘de-risking’ strategy continues
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT Shows a Significant Slowing in Traffic
- Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
- Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI
- 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders
- Claude 2
- Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
- An AI Startup Is Helping North American Diesel Trains Clean Up Their Act
- NYC subway using AI to track fare evasion
August
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Mind Over Paralysis: AI Helps Quadriplegic Man Move and Feel Again
- Massachusetts regulators launch probe into AI in securities industry
- Movie extras worry they’ll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans
- Meta is reportedly preparing to release AI-powered chatbots with different personas
- Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
- White House launches AI-based contest to secure government systems from hacks
- Spotify expands its AI-powered DJ feature globally
- Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are
- Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
- The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content
- FEC could limit AI in political ads ahead of 2024
- As Hollywood Strikes, 96% Of Entertainment Companies Are Boosting Generative AI Spend
- How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
- State of AI Q2’23 Report
- Introducing Code Llama, an AI Tool for Coding
- Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling
September
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- AI21 Labs Raises $155M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.4 Billion
- Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month
- OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers
- It’s a Weird Time for Driverless Cars
- Pentagon plans vast AI fleet to counter China, Wall Street Journal reports
- Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’
- Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok
- Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users
- Salesforce introduces new AI assistant, Einstein Copilot, for all its CRM apps
- California bill to ban driverless autonomous trucks goes to Newsom’s desk
- Adobe starts paying bonuses to Stock contributors whose content is being used to train Firefly
- DeepMind discovers that AI large language models can optimize their own prompts
- Paper: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
- Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI
October
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5
Highlights:
- Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
- Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.
- Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
- Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill
- Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components
- Scaling GAIA-1: 9-billion parameter generative world model for autonomous driving
- Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices
- ‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
- The New AI Panic
- Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express
- Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
- State of AI Report 2023
- Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents
- 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
- White House to unveil sweeping AI executive order next week, tackling immigration, safety
- Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says
- This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
November
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
Highlights:
- Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards
- ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat
- Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- At UK’s AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks
- Here’s what we know about generative AI’s impact on white-collar work
- Musk’s xAI set to launch first AI model to select group
- EU’s AI Act negotiations hit the brakes over foundation models
- Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable
- Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
- Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care
- Five Days of Chaos: How Sam Altman Returned to OpenAI
- Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
- Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview
- Underage Workers Are Training AI
December
Our Short Summary: [Editorial text summarizing the main events of the month.]
Newsletter links: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3
Highlights:
- ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world
- Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
- Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
- Alphabet unveils long-awaited Gemini AI model
- E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules
- OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing
- Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models
- Meet Mixtral 8x7b: The Revolutionary Language Model from Mistral that Surpasses GPT-3.5 in Open-Access AI
- Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Deepfakes for $24 a month: how AI is disrupting Bangladesh’s election
