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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Most Important Breakthroughs of the Year

In the last two years, there's been an extraordinary revolution in weight loss medication thanks to a happy accident. Roughly 40% of Americans are tech the obese and we need to be able to get the obesity. Another revolution that I think will maybe one day become synonymous with the 2020s is the incredible blowout in generative AI tools.

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