Dongpo Deng

Prediction: 2024 will be the year the internet changed forever. The next AI developments are going to revolutionize every aspect of the internet. If you truly think AI is just another hype cycle, you're in for a new awakening. Here's what's coming: 1. Autonomous to-do lists/agents: AI that performs tasks without the need for human intervention. These agents will be sending your emails, taking your calls, completing online purchases, and much more. 2. The advancements in Multimodality: Developers will be able to build apps that can analyze and describe images and video. Imagine the disruption in healthcare (analyzing medical images), interactive education (learn from images), gaming (enhanced interaction), and SO much more. We've already seen the early stages of this with GPT-4 Vision. 3. The rise of Deepfakes: Anyone will be able to clone a person's face, voice, and body with just a click. A whole new wave of AI-generated-deepfake-disinformation is coming. This will probably become a 'mainstream' problem during the 2024 election, cause major negative sentiment to the AI industry, and further accelerate the pace of AI regulation. 4. 20x cheaper costs of development: Major advancements in AI hardware and updates to memory storage. A current setback for the pace of AI is the high costs, but it's only getting cheaper. Cheaper costs = faster development. 5. Breakout AI-generated songs: AI-generated songs will continue to improve and become mainstream. Grimes recently revealed software to mimic her voice, and we've already seen huge impacts with the 'ghostwriter977' AI-drake song. I think we'll see AI-generated songs hit the top of billboards in 2024. 6. AI Regulation: With the rise of these trends, there will also be a huge rise in AI regulation. - How will AI agents ensure data privacy and security? - How will Multimodal apps ensure accuracy and avoid biases, especially in critical sectors like healthcare? - How can society detect and counteract deepfakes and AI-generated art? - Will these advancements be regulated due to sociological impacts on the job economy? Final thoughts: The future is almost impossible to predict with the multitude of factors in play, but in my opinion, the next year is when we're about to see the true AI disruption really unfold. The internet is about to get a makeover.