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The shine began to wear off AI in 2024 as advances slowed down

AI made incredible progress in 2023, but with a less-impressive pace of development this year, it may be that existing techniques are reaching their limits

By Alex Wilkins

11 December 2024

A question that many people are still trying to answer

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Did artificial intelligence begin to plateau in 2024, following a boom year in 2023? It depends on who you ask. Some say AI models that were released this year and can apparently reason more effectively than their predecessors show that the lofty goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is still on track, but not everyone is convinced.

Certainly, tech firms have continued to talk up the hype. When it launched GPT-4 in 2023, OpenAI boasted that the model had “human-level” performance on professional tests…

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