The technology that will invade our lives in 2023 – Reuters

Every year, I review tech news to predict which technology could affect your life in a big way – and which technology will most likely become a fad.

Before we get to that, though, let’s quickly rewind to 2022.

The material was very “meh”. This year’s iPhone, with mostly unnoticeable improvements, was an even more incremental upgrade than last year’s model. Separately, Meta has released a $1,500 virtual reality headset that Mark Zuckerberg says will change the way people work – although with two hours of battery life most people wouldn’t. will probably only use to play games.

Social networks have become very weird. Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, gutted staff and suspended the accounts of some journalists and technicians, sending masses of Twitter users searching for alternative sites.

And TikTok’s fate is in jeopardy, as more than a dozen states, citing national security concerns, have banned the use of the app on government-issued devices.

Then, towards the end of the year, something truly remarkable happened. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company, has launched ChatGPT, a chatbot that can generate seemingly intelligent answers to questions. People who pushed the bot with requests quickly realized that it could write essays, write code, and write business proposals.

All this is just a sample of what awaits us next year. We can expect many exciting advancements in AI-powered language processing technology, as well as the same trends that have persisted over the past few years, including advances in electric cars and the metaverse. Maybe there will even be a social media renaissance.

Here are the technological developments that will invade our lives in 2023.

1. New chatty assistants

Early adopters who were won over by ChatGPT’s language proficiency were just as quickly stunned by how wrong it can be, especially with simple arithmetic. Flaws aside, we can reasonably expect AI companies to enhance the strengths of these chatbots with tools that streamline the way we write and read text, AI experts say.

On the one hand, it is very likely that next year you can have a chatbot that acts as a research assistant. Imagine you are writing a research paper and want to add some historical facts about World War II. You can share a 100-page document with the bot and ask it to summarize highlights related to a certain aspect of the war. The bot will then read the document and generate a summary for you.

“If you want to enrich your writing with a historical fact, you won’t have to go searching the web and find it,” said Yoav Shoham, professor emeritus at Stanford University who helps compile the A‌‌I‌‌ Index, an annual report on advances in artificial intelligence. “It will be there with the click of a button.”

That doesn’t mean we’ll see a flood of standalone AI apps in 2023. Many of the tools we already use for work may start integrating automatic language generation into their apps. Rowan Curran, technology analyst at research firm Forrester, said applications such as Microsoft Word and Google Sheets may soon incorporate AI tools to streamline user workflows.

2. Virtual reality, aka the metaverse

For much of the past decade, tech companies have been promoting virtual reality headsets, such as the Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Sony PlayStation VR, for playing games. Now that technology has evolved to become more powerful and wireless, tech companies are making lofty promises that these headsets will eventually reshape our lives the same way smartphones have changed us.

Meta, for its part, imagines that the metaverse could be a virtual space where we work, collaborate and create. When unveiling the Quest Pro headset this year, the company envisioned the technology could become a multitasking tool for workers juggling meetings while scrolling through emails and other tasks. Still, upon release, the device received mixed reviews, and it remains to be seen if Meta can bring its vision for the Metaverse to life.