Feeling impressed to write down your first TDS publish earlier than the top of 2024? We’re all the time open to contributions from new authors.
And identical to that, 2024 is (nearly) within the books. It was a yr of thrilling transitions — each for the TDS group and, in lots of significant methods, for the information science, machine studying, and AI communities at giant. We’d wish to thank all of you—readers, authors, and followers—in your help, and for holding us busy and engaged together with your wonderful contributions and feedback.
Not like in 2023, when a single occasion (ChatGPT’s launch simply weeks earlier than the start of the yr) stopped everybody of their tracks and formed conversations for months on finish, this yr we skilled a extra cumulative and fragmented sense of transformation. Practitioners throughout trade and academia experimented with new instruments and labored onerous to seek out modern methods to learn from the fast rise of LLMs; on the identical time, additionally they needed to navigate a difficult job market and a world the place AI’s footprint inches ever nearer to their very own on a regular basis workflows.
That can assist you make sense of those developments, we printed greater than 3,500 articles this previous yr, together with a whole lot from first-time contributors. Our authors have an unimaginable knack for injecting their distinctive perspective into any subject they cowl—from huge questions and well timed matters to extra targeted technical challenges—and we’re happy with each publish we printed in 2024.
Inside this large inventive output, some articles handle to resonate notably properly with our readers, and we’re dedicating our closing Variable version to those: our most-read, -discussed, and -shared posts of the yr. As you may anticipate, they cowl quite a bit of floor, so we’ve determined to rearrange them following the key themes we’ve detected this yr: studying and constructing from scratch, RAG and AI brokers, profession progress, and breakthroughs and innovation.
We hope you take pleasure in exploring our 2024 highlights, and we want you a soothing finish of the yr — see you in January!