For Businesses and Other Organizations, What Makes a Successful Chatbot?

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The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog A chatbot that was meant to “transform” and “democratize” education ended up flopping. Many public schools implemented Ed, the chatbot, with the hope that it could lead to higher grades and engagement across the board.  The company that makes the chatbot has now shrunk by quite a […]

A.I. in KY: University of Louisville Details A.I. Educational Offerings

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The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Article The University of Louisville (U of L) College of Business has detailed a number of offerings for students to learn more about A.I.  Gen A.I. is a big focus here, with some classes by design meant to introduce students to Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT […]

A.I. in Property Management: Uses for Landlords and Multifamily Properties

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The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog
 Landlords are finding more uses for A.I. now that generative A.I. in property management has become widely popular.  In particular, property management companies are integrating more chatbots into the operations.  There are several uses for gen A.I. chatbots, such as managing maintenance requests.  Some chatbots can even […]

Store Companion, Target’s New In-store Chatbot, Points to the Future of RetA.I.l

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The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Store Companion is the name of Target’s in-store chatbot assistant. This chatbot will assist employees and customers alike. It appears as an app on the employees’ hand-held devices.  The rollout begins with about 400 stores, which is expected to grow to 2,000 by August of this year […]

A.I. in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A.I in the pharmaceutical industry is boosting development of drugs.  Given how cost- and time-intensive developing a drug can be, the hope is that A.I. can speed up certain parts of the R & D phase.  Certain parts of the process, such as clinical trials with human […]

What To Learn from the Census Data on A.I. Use by Businesses

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The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The U.S. Census has released an Artificial Intelligence Supplement to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey.  According to this new Census data on A.I., only 5% of businesses reported that they used A.I. for their business In that same survey, 10% of businesses reported that it was […]

Artificial General Intelligence, or Something Like It, Is On the Way–Is Your Business Ready?

The Five Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Artificial general intelligence (or, A.G.I.) refers to artificial intelligence (A.I.) that can equal or do better than a human intelligence in many cognitive tasks.  The mere possibility of A.G.I. is highly controversial among A.I. experts, as some believe it is truly impossible.  Despite any controversy surrounding the […]

NASA and IBM’s Weather-Predicting A.I. Could Have Many Uses for Businesses

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The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Prithvi-weather-climate is a weather-predicting A.I. platform that creates weather tracking and forecasts. IBM and NASA collaborated to create Prithvi-weather-climate.    This A.I. project will be openly available thanks to NASA’s open science commitment.    Thanks to access to NASA’s repository of data related to Earth’s atmosphere, it […]