2018 Report: Literature
Becoming by Michelle Obama is released, quickly becoming the best-selling book of the year in the US. Part of the 61 Fun Facts: The 2018… Read More »2018 Report: Literature
2018
2018 Classic: Fortnite’s Cross-Platform Peak
The game’s massive scale forces the development of more robust, AI-driven server management to handle millions of simultaneous players across consoles and mobile. Part of… Read More »2018 Classic: Fortnite’s Cross-Platform Peak
2018 Vault: The Midterm Elections
A „Blue Wave” sees Democrats retake the House of Representatives, featuring a record number of women elected to Congress. Part of the 61 Fun Facts:… Read More »2018 Vault: The Midterm Elections
2018 Classic: Culture
The „IHOb” marketing stunt (International House of Burgers) briefly confuses the nation before reverting to IHOP. Part of the 61 Fun Facts: The 2018 Year… Read More »2018 Classic: Culture
2018 Legacy: Google Unveils BERT
Google introduces BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). This model revolutionizes Natural Language Processing by allowing AI to understand the context of a word based… Read More »2018 Legacy: Google Unveils BERT
2018 Report: Red Dead Redemption 2’s NPC AI
Rockstar Games releases RDR2, featuring over 1,000 NPCs with unique „lives,” schedules, and reactive AI, setting a new benchmark for „living” virtual ecosystems. Part of… Read More »2018 Report: Red Dead Redemption 2’s NPC AI
2018 Record: The Death of Aretha Franklin
The „Queen of Soul” passes away in August, leading to a week of musical tributes and a legendary funeral service. Part of the 61 Fun… Read More »2018 Record: The Death of Aretha Franklin
2018 Record: Science
NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars to study the planet’s deep interior. Part of the 61 Fun Facts: The 2018 Year of the Floss… Read More »2018 Record: Science
2018 Legacy: OpenAI Presents GPT-1
OpenAI publishes its first paper on Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT). It proves that by pre-training a model on a massive corpus of diverse books, AI… Read More »2018 Legacy: OpenAI Presents GPT-1
2018 Classic: 2018 The Year of Context
This year moved AI from „recognizing” words to „understanding” meaning. By mastering context through BERT and GPT, the machine finally started to learn the way… Read More »2018 Classic: 2018 The Year of Context