AI & Robotics

Digital transformation is critical for modern enterprises. However, it has also made the CIO role incredibly challenging. They have to deal with data sprawl, SaaS apps all over the place, purchases and expenses not being well tracked and usage not being easy to pin down.  In this complicated environment, “the CIO is caught surprised,” Sundari Mitra, CEO and co-founder of startup Asato, told…

Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated paper in the journal Nature describing an “autonomous laboratory” or “A-Lab” that aimed to use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelerate the discovery and synthesis of new materials.  Dubbed a “self-driving lab,” the A-Lab presented an ambitious vision of what an…

AI has been transformative, especially with the public drop of ChatGPT. But for all the potential AI holds, its development at its current pace, if left unchecked, comes with more than a few concerns. Leading AI research lab Anthropic (along with many others) is worried about the destructive power of AI — even as it competes with ChatGPT. Other concerns, including the elimination of millions of…

It has been a year since OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT as a “research preview,” a chatbot based on a large language model (LLM). LLMs are a particular implementation of transformer neural networks, a technology that first surfaced in a 2017 paper from Google. ChatGPT provided a user-friendly interface to the underlying LLM GPT-3.5 and became the fastest growing consumer technology ever…