AI in 2023: what’s working now?
JOHN SAEKI
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Sources: Chat.openai.com/Engineered Arts/NYT/TheVerge/Science.org/PEWresearch.org
France
Japan
Denmark
Israel
Plans to use AI for security,
crowd-control and
trouble-shooting in congested
areas at the Paris Olympics
AI software, such as
Stable Diffusion, use stock
photos and news pics to
generate images; the question
of copyright is in dispute
Art-ificial
Software programmed to
memorise teachings from
ancient Buddhist texts; gives
advice on enlightenment
A group called the
Synthetic Party uses AI to
devise entirely data-driven
policies
December 2022
November 2022
DeepMind’s AlphaCode
found to outperform
many human
programmers
in tricky
software challenges
Open AI’s ChatGPT
considered the best
natural-language chatbot so
far released to the public;
many believe it will be
a game-changer
September 2022
CODING
KNOWLEDGE
ART
AI-generated art created
with Midjourney from
text inputs wins
competition at the
Colorado State Fair,
without the judges
realising it was made by AI
Traffic flow optimisation by
the use of traffic lights controlled
by an algorithm that processes
real-time road data
Data-driven crowd control
E-nlightenment
Politics by algorithm
Robo-traffic-cop
E-lifeguard
Alerts drowning threats at
swimming spots, using
cameras and data on currents
and water conditions
Recent major developments in artificial intelligence
AI applied
Selected recent highlights in operation, or planning
AI in 2023: what’s working now?
Ameca — designed by Engineered Arts to be a humanoid
platform for developing AI
Performing repetitive
workplace tasks
Knowing people’s
thoughts, behaviours
Customer service calls
Making important
life decisions
Medical diagnosis
*PEW: survey of US adults Nov 2021
Percent polled* who express concern about AI tasked for:
69
41
52
71
19
32
79
80
50
43
27
100% concerned
None concerned
Men
Women
Opinion polls show differing levels of acceptance about potential AI applications
