- text and image generating AI is hugely disruptive to education and content generation - Inflation eases, stock market recovers - A Twitter alternative break

- 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