A decade ago, I wrote a graphic novel about a researcher who used AI technologies to connect vast populations of humans into a unified superintelligence that could solve all the world’s problems. I titled the book Monkey Room because it plays on the old concept that if you put a million monkeys into a room with a million typewriters and have them pound the keyboards for millions upon millions of…
Presented by Supermicro/NVIDIA
AI delivers business value and a competitive advantage for enterprise, but there’s one obstacle: graduating from proof of concept to production AI at scale. In this VB Spotlight event, learn how an end-to-end AI platform helps deliver…
How AI can ease those data management woes
March 11, 2023
Data is the new oil, but raw data is no good in and of itself. Like oil, data assets have to be gathered entirely and accurately and sent through different refining processes to create value for end users. This is the general data lifecycle — an area where artificial…
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here.
Avatars have been around for a lot of video game history, but for most of that history, players would never mistake those characters for the humans they imitate. Inworld AI wants to change that by infusing AI into virtual characters to make them smarter than ever.
And Inworld AI has demoed its…
Monnai, a provider of a consumer insights platform for financial organizations, has announced a series A funding round of $6.5 million. The company will use the funding to bolster its AI-driven decisioning capabilities.
The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation…
As the search AI chatbot shindigs — like Microsoft’s Bing bot debut and Google’s Bard launch — wind down for now, who knew the hottest, trendiest party in generative AI would be … business productivity apps?
After years of being relegated to nerdy, wallflower AI…
While OpenAI is grabbing a lot of the hype in the generative AI world, it isn’t the only vendor building a large language model (LLM).
Today, Israeli startup AI21 Labs announced the release of its latest generative AI model, known as Jurassic-2. AI21 Labs was founded in 2017, and released its Jurassic-1 Jumbo LLM in 2021, boasting that it had been trained on 178 billion parameters. The company…
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here.
Discord has announced plans to give its users more AI-powered tools to be use with friends. While some tools will roll out today, it’s clear that AI is seen as a long…
San Francisco-based customer service AI and support company Forethought has launched SupportGPT, a generative AI platform that automates workflows, allowing customer service teams to focus on more value-adding tasks.
The move is part of a general industry surge to streamline…
How NLP is turbocharging business intelligence
March 8, 2023
Natural language processing (NLP), business intelligence (BI) and analytics have evolved in parallel in recent years. NLP has shown potential to make BI data more accessible. But there is much work ahead to adapt NLP for use in this highly competitive area.
Integrated NLP-enabled chatbots have become part of many BI-oriented systems along with search and query features. Long-established and…
