How AI changed the world in 2024

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The machines haven’t taken over the planet, just yet. But artificial intelligence certainly made its mark in 2024. There were Nobel Prizes, robo-teachers, deepfake fraudsters and, incredibly, computers that doubled their processing power every few months.   CGTN’s Michael Marillier takes a look at some of the key moments.   READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4iVeiP5  #AI #tech #ChatGPT

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00:00Imagine you could double your knowledge in a single year.

00:06For humans, it's a fantasy, but for AI, it's a reality.

00:11Some AI models now process twice as much data as they did just six months ago.

00:17They can handle massive amounts of information, allowing them to learn faster than ever.

00:22ChatGPT4, for example, was built on a huge database.

00:27Some reports suggest more than one trillion pieces of data.

00:31That's one, followed by 12 zeros.

00:34Clearly, AI is getting smarter, and it's making us smarter as well.

00:40The scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry used AI, training it to

00:45predict millions of chemical reactions in our bodies.

00:49That discovery could pave the way for life-saving drugs and vaccines.

00:53AI is also changing the way we do business.

00:57Research firm McKinsey asked companies around the world if they used generative AI.

01:02In other words, AI that creates content.

01:04In 2023, 33% said yes.

01:08This year, it was 65%.

01:11But there's another side to this technology.

01:15You could say a dark side.

01:17AI can already do some tasks faster and cheaper than humans.

01:22Experts say it could soon perform 30% of jobs in advanced economies like the US and Britain.

01:29That doesn't mean all those jobs will disappear, but there could be a ripple effect, with many

01:34workers having to accept lower wages because it's easy to replace them.

01:40There are other risks.

01:41Fraudsters are using AI to create deepfakes, digital avatars that trick people by assuming

01:47someone else's identity.

01:50Meanwhile, the mother of a suicide victim has gone to court, claiming an AI chatbot

01:55encouraged her son to kill himself at the age of 14.

01:59Governments around the world are now trying to manage the dangers.

02:03China, for example, has developed laws to stop the use of deepfakes.

02:08It's also drafting laws to regulate AI as a whole.

02:12Meanwhile, the European Union has launched the Artificial Intelligence Act, designed

02:16to protect human rights.

02:18It's not clear if all these regulations will work, but one thing is clear.

02:23AI is here to stay.

02:26Michael Merilia, CGTN, London.

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