2023 has been an eventful year for AI. ChatGPT took the world by storm after its advent in late November 2022. What followed was a spate of similar large language models from other organizations, some of which are big names of Silicon Valley. AI was on the lips of everyone in 2023.

Can AI stagnate in 2024? Rodney Brooks, former director, Computer Science and AI Lab, MIT who predicts on technology ever since 2018 believes that 2024 is not the best year for AI. He alerts us that AI winter is likely to set in and advises us to get our thick coats out as it is going to be cold.

He is cynical despite ChatGPT, Bing, Bard. He believes that these do not have the capability to become a potent artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. These lack imagination and genuine substance. He proclaims that there is much more to life than LLMs. These models still hallucinate. They make mistakes while doing coding. Though they answer with confidence, half the time their answers are wrong. Intelligence and interaction are two different things. Being clever wordsmiths is not enough. They still have a long way to go. They are still good at only correlation of language.