Artificial intelligence made a big splash with consumers and regulators alike in 2023, with experts believing the continued development of the technology will reach even greater heights in 2024.

“I think that in 2024, AI will move a little closer to what is in the public imagination, but we remain years from AI being autonomous in the way people are imagining it,” Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer of Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital.

Alexander’s comments come after 2023 saw a noticeable leap in the development and availability of AI tools, with popular language learning model (LLM) platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT gaining huge popularity and energizing other tech giants to come along for the ride.

Microsoft was one of the first companies to follow the leader of OpenAI in 2023, announcing a large investment in the AI company while also launching its own chatbot that will be used on both its Bing search platform and another AI bot compatible with Windows 11. Google, Amazon and Meta also announced AI initiatives of their own early this year, setting up a new arms race among many of the tech giants.

But the growing technology also has the potential to be a boom industry for startups, experts believe, a trend that could really begin to show in 2024.

“In 2024, I expect the momentum we saw from this past year only to increase,” Samuel Mangold-Lenett, staff editor at The Federalist, told Fox News Digital. “Corporations have found solid footing, startups are learning how to customize it to fill various niches, and the public has realized that in some critical ways AI technology is a net positive.”

Mangold-Lenett also believes 2024 will be the year that, like other technologies, AI will become much more customizable to individual users.

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