The Yuan contributor Kirk Borne presents the fourth article this week on The Yuan platform predicting the evolution of artificial intelligence in 2022. He predicts another year of growing macro trends in the global AI sphere which will open many new ways of thinking, surprising innovations, and more stable solutions to critical problems.

Multimodal artificial intelligence is the new kid on the AI block. It uses several data types, such as image, text, speech, and numerical data, and combines them with multiple intelligence processing algorithms to achieve higher performance. Data scientist and astrophysicist Dr Kirk Borne applies some context to multimodal AI’s ability to sense, understand, assimilate, synergize, and learn from multiple diverse inputs.

Kirk Borne discusses five exciting examples of valuable research advances recently announced that are either already associated with artificial intelligence or will be soon, including a new model able to predict how an infectious disease leaps from one species to another.

This cogent article by Kirk Borne employs mathematical reasoning to explore how smaller companies’ collective investments - the ‘long tail’ - drive the advance of artificial intelligence even more than outlays by bigger players, particularly in healthcare.