Explainer: How AI changed the world in 2024 [Video]

Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future. It’s also the present. 

That became clear in 2024.  AI is learning faster than ever because it’s able to handle more and more data. Research by Epoch.ai suggests the computing power behind some AI models is now double what it was just six months ago.  

That translates to a massive amount of knowledge. ChatGPT-4 is one of the most popular AI tools available to consumers – reports suggest it was trained using more than a trillion ‘data parameters’. For context, that’s a million multiplied by a million.  

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But while AI is getting smarter, it’s also making us smarter. Two of the scientists who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry used an AI forecasting tool. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper uncovered how different combinations of amino acids form proteins in human bodies. 

The AlphaFold2 tool allows them to predict the structures of nearly 200 million different proteins – a …