The most amazing technology historians of 2023

The 2023th turned out to be in its own amazing year for the technology world. We turned out to be more closely to the world that an artificial superinTelelex appeared in the world, the future of which is still difficult to predict. This amazing technology arises in a world where wars are going on, and the largest economies in the world fight for resources and technologies. We have to read a lot about all this, think and argue next year. In the meantime, we have collected for you the most interesting texts that can be read over these long weekends - to relax and gain inspiration.

Happy New Year! And see you next year!

Ambitions and dramas in AI-Mire

In 2015, two old friends - billionaire Larry Page and Ilon Musk - talked at the fire at a party in honor of the Mask's birthday. That evening they argued about what humanity awaits in the future of the winning AI: prosperity or death. Page insisted that we were waiting for a digital utopia in which people will merge with cars, and Musk - that cars will destroy humanity. This dispute ended a ten -year friendship, and soon the world of techno -enthusiasts was divided into two camps: those who want to implement AI as quickly as possible in all spheres of life, and those who are afraid of this.

The New York Times tells how these diametrically opposite positions influenced the formation of different and companies in Silicon Valley.

What this confrontation resulted in, we know well: in November, the board of directors of Openai, the developer of the most powerful and advanced neural network today, almost fired the founder of Sam Altman. After a series of intrigues, Alman returned, but the internal conflict, which almost brought the company to the collapse, remained.

The New York Times, continuing a series of texts about Ai-Mir, tells what exactly happened in those days in the company (and where the struggle for places in the Council of Directors, Middle Eastern investors and skillful manipulations), and tries to predict that the result of this battle means for our future.

The protagonist of all this drama - Sam Altman - is a very ambiguous character. On the one hand, there is an indisputable leader who has managed to become an icon and a symbol of the advancing AI-world, not being a scientist or a developer. On the other hand, a person who “loves power” does not particularly understand the means to achieve his goals and once after time falls in a situation where colleagues and partners cease to understand what he actually does and what he is trying to achieve.

The Wall Street Journal talked with dozens of eyewitnesses and close acquaintances of Altman and tells how he had lost the trust of the founders of the projects that he led three times in his career, but each time he managed to rise to new heights.
And The Washington Post explores the “supernatural chuyka” and the insurmountable charm of Altman, who conquered not only colleagues in the industry, but also the richest and most influential people in the world of technology and even in politics (this is a very interesting text, be sure to read it!).

Another unconditional hero of this year is the head of Microsoft, Satya Ondalel. The technohigant, which all has been led by since 2014, he already managed to re -make twice. In 2019, Financial Times called him the man of the year for managing to return Microsoft among the most influential companies in the world (as it was, we said here ). And in 2023, Nadalla is a man, behind every word and the action of which the whole Technomir is closely observed.

CNN tells how CEO Microsoft managed to lead the AI race among the Bigtehs and what awaits the “CEO of the Year”, according to the publication, ahead.

The main technologists of 2023

This year was remembered not only by exciting turns and dramas on the AI Rynka, but also with loud technology and disasters. Mit Technology Review annually is your top of the latter. And this year there is a rich crop :

In the first place is the tragic death of the crew of the Titan apparatus. We talked about this disaster in detail here . The search for the apparatus, which was missing at the bottom of the Atlantic next to the wreckage of the legendary Titanic, followed the whole world. The tragedy of Titan is still raising a lot of questions. And the main of them - as experienced researchers and billionaires who paid $ 250 thousand for this descent, could decide to dive on an apparatus, the unreliability of which experts spoke for years. This disaster is an extra confirmation that the thirst for innovation can conflict with reality, and what consequences it has, writes MIT. Something similar regularly happens with other companies.
For example, with Cruise. For the developer of Robotax, this year ended extremely unsuccessfully. The first company, which managed to achieve a round-the-clock unmanned taxi in San Francisco, fell into a series of accidents and scandals. By the end of the year, the company fired a quarter of employees, was left without the founders and lost the opportunity to ride California. Was it worth a hurry and launching non -power technology on the market?
FAKE It Till You Make It is a principle to which we owe the appearance of more than one successful techno -startup. But because of him, most of the technological operators occurred. For example, they include Upside Foods, which attracted $ 500 million to create chicken meat in the laboratory. But, as it turned out , to create a piece of laboratory chicken, it has to be assembled manually on fibers. And this makes the cost of such meat ten times higher than usual.
Among the other technologists of the year-AI PIN, a gadget-sign from the former tops of Apple, which is controlled by a voice and projects on the hand of messages and notifications. The idea of riding people from telephone dependence is laudable, performance is strange: this device costs almost $ 700 plus a monthly subscription of $ 24.

Wearing the future

In 2024, the most important technology for recent years will appear on store shelves - Apple Vision Pro. The company took seven years to develop a mixed reality headset, and almost a year to finally enter the market. For the most expensive company in the world, the bet on the new device is very high. In 2023, she survived the longest drop in revenue over the past 22 years. Vision Pro worth $ 3500 will appear on sale next year, possibly already in February. At first, the company planned to release a million devices, then reduced plans twice.

If you missed the presentation of the product, there is a detailed analysis .
The question remains: does Apple make Vision Pro the very Next Big Thing that the company is counting on? There are reasons to doubt .

But just our future, apparently, will not be limited to VR. Right now, Sam Altman and the former main designer of Apple Johni Ive are starting work on a new wearable device with artificial intelligence.

Nothing is known about the device - the Lovefrom Aiva studio only took up the development of the concept. In the meantime, you can read about the Aiva itself, the inspirer of the most important products of Apple, his philosophy in the design and device of the studio.

What else:

Generative AI conquered the world in 2023. His future and future of mankind will depend on what we will do next, writes Mit. The authors ask six main questions, the answers to which will determine our prospects.
“Death is unacceptable”: Bloomberg tells how technohigigans, venture investors, crypto enthusiasts and developers of AI turned studies of longevity into something between the most popular science and tragicomedy.
Work in iPhone production factories in China is similar to hell. But such effectiveness is difficult to reproduce somewhere else. Foxconn develops production in India, but it does not work as profitable. The Rest of World tells how two cultures collided in Indian factories and how the corporation is trying to establish production in a country where everything, besides labor, is expensive.
Censorship is so different, but so the same: as independent journalists in India, where the government suppresses freedom of speech, migrate on YouTube one.

Online investigation

Gid on the heading

All year in our constant and very popular section “Online investigation”, its author, The Bell journalist, Irina Pankratova, told readers about basic methods of working with open data and digital security rules. Using these tools, you can check any dubious information, whether fake news or scammers. This is not only interesting, but also useful. On New Year's Eve, Ira collected a full guide for the tools that she spoke about in a year.