2024 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year in technology. With the coming of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the launch of GPT-5 by OpenAI, we find ourselves on the brink of an unprecedented technological revolution. These are not the only news to wait for: let's try to take a look further ahead, to the next few months.
Revolutionary Perspectives in AI: From GPT-5 to AGI
Small premise: after the bang of 2023, this will be the first real year in which artificial intelligence reaches mass consumption. We will realize this from the proposals that companies will make to us as early as January, during the CES2024 fair, which we will obviously follow for you.
2024 could be the year the AGI, human-level artificial intelligence, becomes a reality, or at least we will get significantly closer. OpenAI is set to release GPT-5, a language model even more advanced than its previous iterations. This development not only promises improvements in human-machine interaction, but also a deeper understanding of the cognitive capabilities of AI.
Saying "general artificial intelligence" will naturally mean "intelligence with the ability to act even in the physical world, beyond mere cognitive processing". In other words, intelligences with a body (I rephrase: with hardware). This brings us to the next expected news.
Agility, Optimus and the android invasion
Another milestone in 2024 will be robotic evolution. From Teslabot, an advanced robot capable of performing assembly tasks in the factory. Teslabot may be more capable than you think, leading to a potential revolution in industrial manufacturing.
If the predictions come true, there will be two companies starting the first Android production next year. In addition to the aforementioned Tesla, there will be Agility, already ready to produce tens of thousands of androids in his newly opened factory. Also watch out for figure, with his robot. It goes without saying that it is Tesla's product that creates the greatest expectation: the synergy it can implement in industrial production has implications that go far beyond the automotive sector.
News for cars and space travel
Here too, Tesla will continue to push the boundaries of innovation with its program Full Self Driving (FSD), which will see its version 12.1 first in North America and then in China and Europe. The goal is to reach 100 Exaflops of computing power in Dojo supercomputer for training, enabling real-time updates of the FSD system based on data from Tesla's fleet of more than 8 million cars by the end of 2024.
At the same time, in the next year SpaceX has scheduled a record number of launches, with the aim of significantly increasing the capabilities of both its rockets for space exploration and the connectivity of Starlink. This expansion of the satellite network promises to improve global accessibility and speed of communications, especially in remote areas.
News in superconductivity and longevity
2024 will also see major developments in room-temperature superconductivity. Incredible to say, it will also do so thanks to the controversial study by South Korean researchers on LK-99, later refuted by several universities and laboratories. Some of the principles observed could lead to revolutionary progress (a paper from 10 days ago even would confirm - again? – discovery), and related innovations in fields such as energy and materials technology.
In the field of longevity, Aubrey de Gray and the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation are making significant progress with experiments on mice, aiming to double their remaining lifespan through interventions such as rapamycin and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We have many sources on the subject and many news to tell you.
A new year of changes
2024 is shaping up to be a watershed year, with advances that could redefine key sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, electric mobility and space research. These innovations are not just technical, but promise to transform the way we live, work and interact with our environment.
There are just a few hours left until the start of this new book: we will leaf through it together to see how these advances will shape our future and take the positive sides, trying to prevent and avoid the negative ones. Summer wallpaper!
