Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.
China’s carbon emissions are now entering structural decline thanks to the massive push in renewables and nuclear https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year
Honestly, AI has been helping me a lot as a student and someone that just likes to research stuff. It’s development over the last year has been incredible.
“I keep getting this bug and I’m not sure about my inputs because it’s a different branch oof my specific field. What does this mean?”
(Long mostly right answer that point me in the right direction)
It has made my work life much easier too, and I have coded stuff that automated my job without knowing anything about code.
It’s incredible.
I work in media so at first I didn’t think it could help me much.
But I’ve used ChatGPT to automise exports of PDFs/image files, used it to rename extreme large number of documents at the same time, used it to pull data from Excel into my Adobe Programs, used it to create customised scripts with use of the Adobe Script to match my work flow.
Adobes own generative AI in Photoshop and Illustrator is also very helpful in specific situations.
And then I use DeepL (free) for every translation.
Humanity was able to experience Baldur’s Gate 3.
I’ve just started it and my party died basically right after getting on land to those brain creatures.
I’m loving it.
It snuck up on me. I love the first game, completed it and the dlc 100%. The first time I heard anything about the sequel was less than a week before launch. I broke the sacred code and preordered. I don’t have much time to play, but I’m making my way through the gate puzzles now.
There was a breakthrough in cat medicine research that is showing promising results in doubling the lifespan of cats.
Edit: Sorry for leaving y’all in suspense, I didn’t remember exactly what it was at the time of commenting, but I found it https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00039.html
I dunno, I had cats who lived to be like 18-19 years, so almost two decades. I can’t imagine how miserable they’d be if they lived to be 40…
Maybe not a breakthrough compared to some of the other comments but home assistant got local voice control this year. For the price of a raspberry pi and a 13 dollar microphone you can have a completely local home automation system controlled by your voice. You can even hook it up to a LLM like chat gpt if you want via a different phrase to do some fun party tricks
