Bots in Society

Amidst the growing interest in OpenAI’s conversation artificial intelligence (AI) service ChatGPT and what it is capable of in the future, an AI specialist company named Wonderful Platform based in South Korea is showcasing various robots incorporating ChatGPT services.

European Robotics Forum 2023, which will take place next week in Odense, Denmark, is fast approaching a record number of 1,000 participants. As the ODEON venue is not big enough to host all the extra sessions next to the main event, the Concert Hall (Koncerthuset0 next door will be used as well.

Exposure to increased automation through robotics at work increases the risk of unemployment and decreases wealth accumulation, particularly for less educated households, finds new research from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 

Ford Motor Company has established Latitude AI, a wholly owned subsidiary focused on developing an autonomous driving system. With this move, Ford gains a team of developers in machine learning, robotics, software, sensors, systems engineering, and operations who will work on automated driving technology.

After competing in the finals with the University College London, which presented Bubble Worlds, a research team led by Dr. Sona Kwak from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology presented CollaBot and received the best award in the “hardware, design, and interface” category at the Robot Design Competition hosted by the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2022.

According to a new market research report by Meticulous Research, the surgical robots market is projected to reach $25.47 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 15.4% during the forecast period 2023–2030.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AI startup Hugging Face will be partnering to bring the language generation tool to customers of the AWS cloud. This announcement illustrates the heated arms race in AI, which saw both Microsoft and Google investing heavily in AI.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work. This was one of the key results in a new study that also found both the youngsters and their instructors valued the positive classroom contributions made by the robot.

The adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across text, image and video-based creative intelligence is at an all-time high and is expected to gain even more momentum this year. As machine learning (ML), deep learning and natural-language processing technologies improve, so does the excitement and dependency of marketers looking to make better informed decisions.

Microsoft has been forced to make radical changes in the testing of ChatGPT 3.5 in their Bing search engine, after a string of testers published strange and sometimes disconcerting results in their conversation with the chatbot. Conversations with this version of AI will be limited to five chat turns.