* Solar energy will account for around 8% (give or take 1%?) of the worlds energy usage
* We'll see the worlds first trillionaire
* Bitcoin will reach $200k+, and remain largely stable around that price, at the end of 2025
* Generative AI for music will continue to improve substantially. I have a lack of imagination, but maybe something like on demand streaming services, maybe targeted to niche music genres (lo-fi, electronica, elevator/hold/office music)
* Generative AI for video will continue to improve substantially. The best I can come up with is that there will be a breakout indie film or music video that's produced from a skeleton crew relying heavily on generative AI video.
* LLMs will continue to improve substantially, being able to solve more and more complex tasks, like the Putnam exam and others. Research will continue to try and integrate LLMs into a toolchain to improve performance
* LLMs and other generative AI tasks will continue to become more and more accessible ($2.5k for a machine able to do fairly advanced training?)
* The cost of robots and other robotics will drop substantially, providing a reasonable bipedal option at $8k
* Twitter and Facebook will still be around, Bluesky will be no more, Mastodon will continue to be niche
* All the above will be used by people to invent and discover weird, wonderful and horrible things that I can't even imagine.
* We'll see the worlds first trillionaire
* Bitcoin will reach $200k+, and remain largely stable around that price, at the end of 2025
* Generative AI for music will continue to improve substantially. I have a lack of imagination, but maybe something like on demand streaming services, maybe targeted to niche music genres (lo-fi, electronica, elevator/hold/office music)
* Generative AI for video will continue to improve substantially. The best I can come up with is that there will be a breakout indie film or music video that's produced from a skeleton crew relying heavily on generative AI video.
* LLMs will continue to improve substantially, being able to solve more and more complex tasks, like the Putnam exam and others. Research will continue to try and integrate LLMs into a toolchain to improve performance
* LLMs and other generative AI tasks will continue to become more and more accessible ($2.5k for a machine able to do fairly advanced training?)
* The cost of robots and other robotics will drop substantially, providing a reasonable bipedal option at $8k
* Twitter and Facebook will still be around, Bluesky will be no more, Mastodon will continue to be niche
* All the above will be used by people to invent and discover weird, wonderful and horrible things that I can't even imagine.