Comment by scanr

- text and image generating AI is hugely disruptive to education and content generation

- Inflation eases, stock market recovers

- A Twitter alternative breaks through.

- One of the big tech companies joins the fediverse (Microsoft most likely)

- TikTok starts to falter - additional regulation, banning, lack of profitability and decline in popularity take a toll

- A fully autonomous drone is used in combat (edit: sounds like it may have already happened so adding “and kills a civilian”)

- Chinas ascendancy continues to slow, Xi’s popularity wanes

- We discover evidence of extra-terrestrial life

- someone “marries” their virtual partner (edit: already happened… so perhaps just a lot more of this)

- From last year: First AI generated novel makes best seller list. Arguments about how ‘directed’ it was

- From last year: Interactive Porn AI startups start doing very well

- Crypto is more regulated