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The most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways that you already know — cheating on homework, drawing bad art, polluting the web — but in ones that feel surprising and new.

With that in mind, here are some things that AI has done in 2024.

• Cut customer losses from scams in half through proactive detection, according to the Bank of Australia. 
• Preserved some of the 200 endangered Indigenous languages spoken in North America.
• Accelerated drug discovery, offering the possibility of breakthrough protections against antibiotic resistance. 
• Detected the presence of tuberculosis by listening to a patient’s voice.
• Reproduced an ALS patient’s lost voice.
• Enabled persecuted Venezuelan journalists to resume delivering the news via digital avatars. 
• Pieced together fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest texts. 
• Caused hundreds of thousands of people to develop intimate relationships with chatbots.
• Created engaging and surprisingly natural-sounding podcasts out of PDFs. 
• Created poetry that participants in a study say they preferred to human-written poetry in a blind test. (This may be because people prefer bad art to good art, but still.)