Trying to the yr forward, all indicators level to there being immense strain on AI firms to point out that generative AI can generate income and that Silicon Valley can produce the “killer app” for AI.

This yr may also be one other big yr for AI regulation all over the world. In 2023 the primary sweeping AI regulation was agreed upon within the European Union, Senate hearings and govt orders unfolded within the US, and China launched particular guidelines for algorithms. If final yr lawmakers agreed on a imaginative and prescient, 2024 would be the yr insurance policies begin to morph into concrete motion.

However even because the generative-AI revolution unfolds at a breakneck tempo, there are nonetheless some large unresolved questions that urgently want answering. Learn the total story.

—Melissa Heikkilä

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