December 12th messageeraThe magazine awarded the annual character in 2025."AI BUILDERI'm sorry. On the cover were Young Weida CEO Wong In-hoon, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, X-owner Mask, AI Madre Lee Fei and others. Experts noted that this option reflects AI and the business behind itAccelerating the transformation of the global social fabric.
Since late 2022, when ChatGPT came into existence, Generating AI continues to drive a new technological wave. Altman revealed in September this year that ChatGPT has about 800 million active users a week. Major technology enterprises are investing huge amounts of money in the construction of AI systems and their infrastructure in an attempt to maintain their advantages。
According to 1AI, this year ' s Times launched two covers, an art design centred on the letter of the AI, a painting featuring relevant technology leaders, including Hoang In-hoon, Zuckerberg, Mask, Li Fei, Altman, AMD CEO Susfon, Anthropic CEO Dario Amody, and Demis Harsabis, head of Google AI Lab。
The Times wrote on the coverTHIS YEAR'S DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER AI SHOULD BE CAREFULLY RELEASED HAS GIVEN WAY TO THE COMPETITION FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF AI AS SOON AS POSSIBLEThe risk-averse party no longer controls the situation。
HUMANS ARE MOVING AT FULL SPEEDVery automated and uncertainfuture.
Time Editor Sam Jacobs says, 2025NO ONE CAN HAVE MORE FAR-REACHING IMPACTS THAN "THE GROUP THAT CONCEPTUALIZES, DESIGNS AND SHAPES AI."I don't know. Jacobs says that humanity will collectively determine the future shape of AI, and that everyone can play a role in the final structure and direction of AI。
Forester Analyst Thomas Hudson thinks, 2025IT'S ENOUGH TO BE SEEN AS A TURNING POINT FOR AI TO INFILTRATE EVERYDAY LIFEI DON'T KNOW. HE SAID TO BBC THAT MANY USERS EVENUNINFORMED USE OF AII don't know. Husson states that AI is rapidly integrating hardware, software and services, and that their penetration rate is already highFar beyond the Internet and mobile communication age.
SOME USERS HAVE STARTED TO RELY ON CHAT ROBOTS TO PLAN TRAVEL, SELECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND STUDY RECIPES; OTHERS HAVE CHOSEN TO AVOID AI ALTOGETHER FOR FEAR OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION, TRAINING DATA SOURCES OR EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS。
The era has been preceded by the granting of annual figures to groups, such as the 2014 fight against Ebola and the 2002 whistle blowers. In 1982, the Times listed computers as “annual figures” and described American society's “almost dizziness” of computers, which were both a current and a symbol of life's promise of improvement. In 2006, The Times gave the annual character “You”, symbolThe Rise of Individual Power in the Internet Age.