A review of the year’s defining trends in Artificial Intelligence
The outgoing year has demonstrated, on the one hand, continued growth in the power and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) relying on so-called “foundation models”, based on deep neural networks such “astransformers”. On the other hand, we were witnessing an entrenchment of certain trends of AI’s development that have to do with overcoming of well-known limitations of AI systems. This ...
... giants Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. In November 2021, Alibaba created the
M6 multimodal network
that boasts a record number of parameters or connections (10 trillion in total)—this is a mere one tenth behind
the number of synapses in the human brain, as the latest data suggest
.
Foundation models
. Super-deep multimodal neural network models have been termed “
foundation models
.” Their potential capabilities and related threats are analysed in a
detailed report
prepared by the world’s leading AI specialists at Stanford ...