Year after year, consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make great strides. Compared to 2022, when tools like ChatGPT started gaining mainstream attention, today’s AI systems are significantly more advanced.
The progress made in consumer-facing AI can be boiled down to three factors: better models, faster processing, and the rise of multimodal capabilities. These advancements played a key role in AI’s evolution in 2024 and paved the way for tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
How AI models became smarter
One of the most significant advancements in 2024 was the improvement of AI models that power popular applications and services, particularly the chatbot created by OpenAI, ChatGPT. The introduction of the “memory” feature to ChatGPT is one of the most notable advancements of 2024. Memory allows chatbots to recall details from past conversations, tailoring responses to a user’s specific context and preferences.
This feature is useful for any task that requires continuous progress, such as learning or any other task that involves …