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I am so excited for this video mainly because for selfish reasons I want to look back on what
were the biggest things that happened in Tech in 2023 when you take a step back and look at all the
event all the biggest things to occur in the tech industry around news and headlines this past year
it was a wild one so this video is purely For Your Entertainment and also I mean it's really
interesting and fascinating to look back on what were the biggest things to happen in Tech in 2023
let's start with January why does January 2023 feel like forever ago I mean I know it's about
a year ago but it really feels even longer than that but there were some big things that occurred
right beginning off the year first one of course you have to understand it was November of 2022 so
leading up to 2023 that chat GPT was released so we kept on seeing especially early on this past
year a lot of news around open aai well I mean throughout the entire year starting off though
in January open aai signed a multi-billion investment deal with Microsoft this deal
this collaboration with Microsoft was finally sealed in January so this agreement essentially
includes scaling supercomputers for open AIS research deploying open AI models across all
Microsoft products and integrating azur into open ai's work close collaboration which I mean when
you look down as to the drama that unfolded with open AI later on it's kind of interesting now in
January as well other big Tech was freaking out about open aai and Google who was we could say a
little intimidated or scared by chat GPT declared actually a code red for AI development now this
was really around Google feeling threatened about chat GPT and people starting to use it instead of
Google to search up different topics all right let's move into February February was equally
as busy of a month for companies now listen I guarantee this whole video will not be covering
chat GPT although it could very easily because every month something came out but it would be
doing disservice to you if I didn't share that in February you know looking back to January
even a month before how Google was feeling a bit threatened by chat gbt in February they announced
Bard to have a bit of rival with chat GPT also in March UK scientists were awarded 67 million euro
for breakthrough in Quantum Computing now this is pretty cool so back in February scientists
from the University of Sussex and the universal Quantum were awarded 67 million after making
breakthroughs around Quantum Computing and these breakthroughs really came for a focus on solving
different challenges around medical uh development especially around the creation of new materials
and climate change solution so there this year as a whole was a big year for the quantum Computing
world and we see this right here there are major breakthroughs Happening Now Twitter or X I should
say really managed to stay in the news throughout the year especially in March though there was were
two big things that happened the first one being that only paid subscribers it was announced on X
will get recommended in the Twitter for you feed so this was a big push to really encourage uh
more people to start pouring their own money into Twitter help Elon out I don't think he needs any
help but continue to really encourage growth for X especially in the financial realm now this had
a ton of backlash a lot of users were extremely upset about this and to top it off in March there
was another big thing that really occurred on X which was some of its portions of source code got
leaked online this was really interesting I don't know if you saw the source code it was nothing too
secretive but it was very interesting the way uh learning more about how they were ranking users
on the social platform what that looked like it was a big year for for X but March specifically
all right let's move on to April April was pretty wild one of my things though that I found most
interesting was around Amazon who in April rolled out their contactless payment technology to over
200 location worldwide now if you know what I'm talking about this is using your palm essentially
to scan and pay this is not new technology this is something they've been working on for quite a
while but it was interesting how this past year particularly in April they rolled out across
so many stores the company also signed a deal with Panera Bread which will see the technology
installed in two locations in St Louis initially so I'm curious if anyone lives there please let
me know if you've tried this out I've never tried out this technology I see it online and I'm very
curious about it would you try it out also in April open AI released GPT 4 which was a model
that was now capable of understanding images and text this was a big step forward for the world of
AI all right let's keep it moving getting into May here this is pretty interesting well two things
let's start with the the least interesting out of the two one being Montana was the first US state
to ban Tik Tok this occurred back in may they finally came out that they were starting to ban
Tik Tok and this ban is set to take place January of 2024 now I'm not sure actually let's search it
up I don't think it's going to happen kind of Tik Tok ban yes correct actually in November a
few weeks ago end of November a federal judge blocked Montana's Tik Tok ban before it takes
place so may there were a lot of stressed out Tik tokers out there wondering if they are located in
Montana what is going to happen to them and now fast forward a few months not really a shocker the
ban has been blocked now the one that I found more interesting is the US drug sorry the US Food and
Drug Administration the FDA gave neuralink back in May thumbs up for human trials now this is a big
step forward for neuralink they've been testing for many years on animals specifically monkeys as
we've all seen these trials and now they got permission to start on humans the company's
goal as they state is to help individuals with paralysis blindness disabilities and all through
this chip all right you can't forget in back in June which feels like once again so long ago but
hackers actually threatened to leak the stolen Reddit data if the company didn't pay them 4.5
million and this was really interesting this was right around the time of the change that
they announced around their controversial change I should say where they were going to update the
pricing policy to the usage of their API I mean so many companies so many individuals use their API
on a frequent basis that this change announcement would affect them a lot and Reddit it's all about
this sense of community good or bad but a sense of community camaraderie so they were not happy about
this the user were not happy I should say now I actually just searched up did Reddit actually
pay the hackers and there's not much news on it I have a sense that they definitely did not pay the
hackers but I'm very curious they really shut down that news quite quickly as far as you know once it
got leaked out that hackers were demanding pay we never really saw an end to this do you know
what happened I'm I'm searching online I don't see anything about it I think they shut down the news
for it which I just can't see them paying though but June was a big month I mean that's that's a
lot of stress all right let's keep on moving going into July there was a lot of product announcements
in July starting with Apple's announcements at its WWDC 2023 conference and here are some of
the things that they announced which sound like you know we use them every day now but back then
they were exciting and new shiny things so they announced the introduction of Apple's Vision Pro
uh which we haven't seen necessarily yet to the market but I do think it's coming early 2024 I
believe that's what I read I just don't know I can see it being used in classro rooms for
learning purposes I just don't see myself walking around my house using it but maybe we're just not
there yet other things they announced include the 15-in MacBook Air the Mac Studio and Mac
Pro and also two with the M2 Ultra chip so it was it was a big year for Apple then on the flip side
meta introduced Quest 3 this was weeks apart that this happened it was both in the same month and
obviously I believe it was meta who announced Quest 3 right before Apple came out with their
version of the you know the Vision Pro and Quest 3 once again I don't know I don't have any friends
who use it I don't think it's really stuck as far as the you know average person having a quest 3 at
home I don't know do you use it I'm very curious to hear who's using this now August is one of the
slower months I would say throughout this past year for big Tech news so you know there's a
few things that happened nothing really exciting though to note I would say you know at this time
meta's threads was released and it had record signups as far as getting onto the platform
which makes sense they really implemented it in a way where you know users that are already on
Instagram are getting pushed directly to threads you get this instant High because a lot of your
followers are still following you on that platform but it really declined quickly it actually reached
100 million signups though which was outpacing chat GPT as the fastest growing platform which
is pretty cool but it definitely didn't stick around I think there's a bit more pick up for
it now especially with Europe users now being able to use it now similar to August September
was actually pretty quiet I mean other than the the typical Rumblings around what is going on with
X what's happening with Tik Tok what's happening with uh open AI all of those I would say are very
commonly threaded throughout the year as being big news but you know to not just continuously repeat
about the same types of news in September there was a lot of news headlines around uh specifically
around the climate and I believe it was because in September where was it ah yes in September
actually this is super interesting Global ocean temperatures were noted to reach unprecedented
levels so the ocean reached a hotter a temperature that was hotter than it ever has been recorded
before and I think through that there was a lot of different speculation a lot of different talk
that came out of that you know the ocean being hotter than it's ever been recorded and how that
affects tech there was a lot of hype around uh socially responsible apps for 2023 um different
ways that Tech could potentially have the power to help with global sustainability so this isn't
a specific news headline other than of course the ocean portion of it but we saw a lot in September
around climate reporting and then too there was this positive take around September I remember
on how AI could potentially help with these climate issues we are facing so September was
a big month for the climate all right we head into October and things start to pick up again
one being I thought this is really interesting China launches in October their first commercial
human space flight program that's pretty cool so this was launched and it was the first commercial
human space flight program that was called Tian Zao I might be saying that wrong probably am
which is a cargo spacecraft that will be used to resupply the Chinese space station the launch is
a significant Milestone they go on to save for China Space Program very interesting and you
know this is something I got excited about because it definitely has a potential to pave the way for
commercial space tourism in the future would you go to space I think I would but I wouldn't be the
first first uh tourist to go maybe you know let some others go first and then I'll try it out also
too um with IBM they developed the new quantum computer that can perform certain calculations
millions of times faster than existing computers so throughout the year IBM really released some
exciting news around Quantum Computing and back in October this was something that they shared
as well around a computer that can do calculations millions of times faster I don't think we realize
how impactful or how powerful this will be we talk a lot about AI Quantum Computing I think
is going to just like take everything to the next level uh you know we we see how AI changed
our world Quantum Computing we'll do that but on steroids steroids elevated you know what I mean
okay welcome November you know what November is going to be or if you don't you will right when I
when I start giving you hints someone very major got fired and then rehired right away of course
this is Sam Alman who was fired as CEO of open aai back in November and then it was over the
weekend there was a lot of drama that happened only to have I believe it was Monday day less
than a week he went back and is now again CEO of open AI employees were outraged of this that he
got let go many threatening to quit many who would have quit if he did not come back so the the board
really had no choice but to take him back and now there are different speculations coming out as to
why he got let go different reports but you know at the end of the day I think the biggest thing is
ensuring that that transparency is there with the knowledge that you know he has the company has um
and maybe there was a little bit of friction at that time with what they were actually sharing
and what the board knew or I think because AI is moving so quickly when they hear things about AI
or the potential for it it can get very scary very quickly what is possible what does he know
is possible but he's been very vocal about what you know not only the good of AI but also the
negative so I don't know I'm very happy he's back I think it's a good move all right now December
here we are end of the year let's look back you know starting in December was really interesting
this is when Google gole claimed their new or shared about their new Gemini AI there were
three models for Gemini later came out about a week later a few days later maybe not even a week
came out around how the video sharing what their model their AI model Gemini was capable of came
out that parts of it were edited and just not as realistic as to where it is today I'll link down
that video or I'll put in the cards here because I did do a video comparing Gemini to chat GPT uh
GPT 4 in particular and it's really fascinating but I do think Gemini in 2024 is really going
to take off other things that happened was Amazon CTO shared his Tech predictions for
2024 and I thought this was really interesting to include in this I really look forward to his
Tech predictions every year because they're kind of out of the box so two things from his
Tech predictions stood out for me the first was a focus on making generative AI culturally aware by
addressing biases in language models now this is a huge prediction I know it doesn't sound that big
but how do you train a model to be culturally aware that is such a big step for forward with
AI that if we are able to do it that's that's pretty awesome another thing he mentioned was
the evolution of Education to match the speed of Technology now this is really interesting to
me he mentions that a shift towards industry-led skill-based training programs will occur versus
the typical traditional degrees and I think this is something that's been really missing from our
education system is it seems as though during school we learn a lot of theory a lot of what
if scenarios then we get into the workforce only to be faced with these Hands-On real scenarios we
need more of that mix in the Middle where when we are in school we're actually doing speaking
in the RO of Technology more Hands-On uh learnings that are up to date with what is going on because
Tech is moving so quickly that we really need to get our educational system at least a little bit
closer to that pace all right 12 months it was a wild ride and I honestly think it was just setting
us up for an even bigger ride going into 2024 what do you think leave down in the comments some of
your predictions going into next year hit that subscribe button and all right this is my last
video I'm filming for 2023 which is pretty crazy it means I can go eat a lot of cookies now bye
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