AI is set to advance at a rapid pace, becoming more powerful and expanding into the physical world.

At an event in San Francisco in November, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was asked what surprises the field might have in store in 2024.

Online chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT will have “an unexpected breakthrough,” Altman immediately responded.

Sitting next to him, James Manyika, a Google executive, nodded and said, “I agree.”

The AI ​​sector this year is going to be defined by one main characteristic: an extraordinarily rapid improvement in technology as advances accumulate, allowing AI to generate new types of media, imitate human reasoning in new ways, and filter in the physical world through a new type of robots.

In the coming months, AI-based imagers such as DALL-E and Midjourney will instantly deliver video and still images. Additionally, they will gradually merge with chatbots like ChatGPT.

This means that chatbots will go far beyond digital text and handle photos, videos, diagrams, graphs and other media. Their behavior will increasingly resemble human reasoning and they will perform increasingly complex tasks in fields such as mathematics and science. As technology moves towards robots, it will also help solve problems beyond the digital world.