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Ask HN: What are your 2023 predictions?

by sAbakumoff on 12/12/22, 4:33 PM with 3 comments

What happens next year? Mine are:

   - Ukraine claims its territory back, including Crimea. 
   - Putin dies, civil war in Russia
   - Trump gets indicted in Mar-a-lago case
   - Twitter turns into a right-wing pit and gets closed
   - New strain of Covid causes a new wave of pandemic
  • by Tepix on 12/12/22, 4:43 PM

    Likely things in 2023:

    - Successful lawsuits against using artwork to train AI models without permission

    - Well known, successful artists will use generated AI in their work. This includes film.

    - AI models generate music and audio well, as seen with text and images earlier

    - AI based film analysis that lets you walk around in 3d in film scenes will become widely available

    - Twitter will shrink. Advertisers will focus elsewhere.

    - SpaceX will go orbital with SpaceShip (doing 3/4 of an orbit counts).

    - An astronaut from a nation other than China will visit the chinese space station

    - Strains on worldwide logistics will disappear due weak demand

    - At least one private moon mission will manage a successful landing

    - Some climate protests go non-peaceful (children of Kali, read "Ministry for the Future")

    - New nasal Covid-19 vaccines will stop people from becoming ill and spreading the disease further, ending the pandemic in the West.

  • by keewee7 on 12/12/22, 4:39 PM

    Russia will end up with more land than before the war but it will be so insignificant that the war will be regarded as a failure both inside and outside Russia.
  • by giardini on 12/12/22, 11:27 PM

    - (Ukraine has always claimed its territory, including Crimea.)

    - Putin is assassinated, Russia splits into several countries, which then hold civil elections successfully,

    - Trump Mar-a-lago cases are dismissed by courts,

    - Twitter rises in popularity while Facebook, Amazon, and Google fall from favor. Amazon goes bankrupt after several financial scandals,

    - Army releases formerly-secret flu vaccine they've held for 30 years that stops all influenzas.