The AI Hype Index: Robot pets, simulated humans, and Apple’s AI text summaries

It’s not always easy to separate the reality of artificial intelligence from the fiction of hype. That’s why we created the Artificial Intelligence Hype Index — a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.

More than 70 countries are voting in 2024. Instead, we’ve seen a lot of artificial intelligence anomie: Trump is shallow, Elon is extreme Chad, California is a catastrophic wasteland. While some are concerned that development of large language models is slowing down, you wouldn’t know it from the constant rollout of new products, features, and services from both small startups and large incumbents. So what is real and what is just a lot of hallucinatory nonsense?