Tech year 2022 wrapped up: The rise of the AI, EU to become the much-needed counterweight to tech giants, ...
Year 2022 was supposed to be the year when we were planning to get out of the pandemic and get back to normal lives. Well, Russia decided differently and the entire year will be remembered as the year when a new war started in Europe.
Despite the war and horrors of it, tech world had some interesting developments during the year - lets try to wrap those changes up here.
The rise of the artificial intelligence
Since the very dawn of computing history, people have dreamed about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Turing test has existed for decades and every now and then we've heard about the developments in AI research.
But the yeat 2022 as the year when AI finally became part of our everyday lives.
It all started with DALL-E in Spring of 2022, when OpenAI released its text-to-images AI project to the public. Suddenly, the entire web was flooded with psychedelic images created by the weird artificial intelligence software.
Soon after, in summer of 2022, open source world pushed the envelope further, by releasing Stable Diffusion project. An open source project doing exactly the same as DALL-E did: generate images from text prompts, but doing that better and with more customization options. Read more...
