After AI’s breakthrough year, what will wow us in 2024?

TWO letters dominated the tech world in 2023: AI. The breakthrough year for artificial intelligence has given the feeling to many that the future is closer than ever before.

The evolution of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has upended education, medicine and commerce despite continued fears that it would instead trigger the end of the world.

While AI has led such a whirling debate in 2023, can it keep up the pace in 2024, or will it suffer the sophomore slump as regulation, copyright cases, and increased competition emerge?

AI is just one of the major issues that will shape 2024, according to 360info experts.

As the medical world works out how to integrate AI into its Hippocratic framework, the quest to understand the fundamental workings of the human body presses on.

The world's first precision gene editing therapy approved for use in the UK and US will target sickle cell disease, but despite its high price, it will offer new solutions for age-old illnesses.

As the world reels from the hottest year on record, new and innovative approaches to sustainability continue with hydrogen-powered homes and commercial airlines running on “waste fats and plant sugars” attempting to propel the globe toward net zero emissions.

As commercial aviation shifts toward sustainable fuels, the rocket propulsion industry is set for a bumper year, with as many as 12 missions that could land on the Moon in the next 12 months.

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Lachlan Guselli is the 360info, Sydney Commissioning Editor