AI boom

From top, left to right: Time Magazine cover featuring a ChatGPT conversation; mechanical dove image created in Midjourney; AlphaFold 2 performance, experiments, and architecture.

The AI boom,^[1]^[2] or AI spring,^[3]^[4] is an ongoing period of rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) that started in the late 2010s before gaining international prominence in the early 2020s. Examples include protein folding prediction led by Google DeepMind as well as large language models and generative AI applications developed by OpenAI.

^ Knight, Will. "Google's Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
^ Meredith, Sam (December 6, 2023). "A 'thirsty' generative AI boom poses a growing problem for Big Tech". CNBC. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
^ Bommasani, Rishi (March 17, 2023). "AI Spring? Four Takeaways from Major Releases in Foundation Models". Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Archived from the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
^ "The coming of AI Spring". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved December 7, 2023.

[1] Knight, Will. "Google's Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved December 12, 2023.

[2] Meredith, Sam (December 6, 2023). "A 'thirsty' generative AI boom poses a growing problem for Big Tech". CNBC. Retrieved December 12, 2023.

[3] Bommasani, Rishi (March 17, 2023). "AI Spring? Four Takeaways from Major Releases in Foundation Models". Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Archived from the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 16, 2023.

[4] "The coming of AI Spring". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved December 7, 2023.

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