Feeling impressed to put in writing your first TDS publish earlier than the tip of 2024? We’re always open to contributions from new authors.
And similar to that, 2024 is (nearly) within the books. It was a 12 months of thrilling transitions — each for the TDS team and, in lots of significant methods, for the information science, machine studying, and AI communities at massive. We’d wish to thank all of you—readers, authors, and followers—to your help, and for retaining us busy and engaged along with your glorious contributions and feedback.
Not like in 2023, when a single occasion (ChatGPT’s launch simply weeks earlier than the start of the 12 months) stopped everybody of their tracks and formed conversations for months on finish, this 12 months we skilled a extra cumulative and fragmented sense of transformation. Practitioners throughout trade and academia experimented with new instruments and labored arduous to search out progressive methods to profit from the speedy 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 12 months, together with a whole bunch from first-time contributors. Our authors have an unimaginable knack for injecting their distinctive perspective into any subject they cowl—from large questions and well timed matters to extra centered technical challenges—and we’re happy with each publish we printed in 2024.
Inside this huge artistic output, some articles handle to resonate notably nicely with our readers, and we’re dedicating our remaining Variable version to those: our most-read, -discussed, and -shared posts of the 12 months. As you would possibly count on, they cowl loads of floor, so we’ve determined to rearrange them following the main themes we’ve detected this 12 months: 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 12 months — see you in January!