In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about finding its use cases in biz

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank.

There was a shift from putting out models to actually building products, said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell The Difference.