Remember when they said the internet was a fad?

In May 2023, scientists in the U.S. and Canada heralded the discovery of a new antibiotic capable of killing a deadly superbug.

Their secret weapon? Artificial intelligence (AI). This was just one of a growing number of breakthroughs powered by AI and machine learning (ML). Other notable breakthroughs in 
generative AI have included the much-discussed natural language processing tools ChatGPT, Bard, and Llama 2.