{"id":133380,"date":"2021-12-31T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-look-back-at-recent-ai-trends-and-what-2022-might-hold"},"modified":"2021-12-31T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T20:23:12","slug":"a-look-back-at-recent-ai-trends-and-what-2022-might-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-look-back-at-recent-ai-trends-and-what-2022-might-hold","title":{"rendered":"A look back at recent AI trends \u2014 and what 2022 might hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-look-back-at-recent-ai-trends-and-what-2022-might-hold.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2021 was an eventful year for AI. With the advent of new techniques, robust systems that can understand the relationships not only between words but words and photos, videos, and audio became possible. At the same time, policymakers \u2014 growing increasingly wary of AI\u2019s potential harm \u2014 proposed rules aimed at mitigating the worst of AI\u2019s effects, including discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, AI research labs \u2014 while signaling their adherence to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/08\/13\/ai-weekly-the-road-to-ethical-adoption-of-ai\/#:~:text=Responsible%20adoption&text=For%20some%2C%20%E2%80%9Cresponsible%E2%80%9D%20implies, customer%20expectations%2C%20and%20organizational%20values.\">responsible AI<\/a>\u201d \u2014 rushed to commercialize their work, either under pressure from corporate parents or investors. But in a bright spot, organizations ranging from the U.S. National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) to the United Nations released guidelines laying the groundwork for more explainable AI, emphasizing the need to move away from \u201cblack-box\u201d systems in favor of those whose reasoning is transparent.<\/p>\n<p>As for what 2022 might hold, the renewed focus on data engineering \u2014 designing the datasets used to train, test, and benchmark AI systems \u2014 that emerged in 2021 seems poised to remain strong. Innovations in AI accelerator hardware are another shoo-in for the year to come, as is a <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/07\/20\/businesses-are-accelerating-their-adoption-of-analytics-survey-finds\/\">climb<\/a> in the uptake of AI in the enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 was an eventful year for AI. With the advent of new techniques, robust systems that can understand the relationships not only between words but words and photos, videos, and audio became possible. At the same time, policymakers \u2014 growing increasingly wary of AI\u2019s potential harm \u2014 proposed rules aimed at mitigating the worst of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}