Business
AI Progress Report, Manufacturing: Manufacturers embrace AI despite talent and data challenges
Manufacturers are embracing AI even as they struggle to find the talent and data required.
Manufacturing
Hardware
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself.
Business
AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication
Neural networks are predicting how metal will deform under pressure to pilot robots through the tricky process of fabricating aircraft. Machina Labs crafts metal using AI-guided robotic arms.
State of AI
What Businesses Want from AI: What Business Managers Want from AI
In a new report, business leaders share their machine-learning successes and struggles. Many businesses plan to increase their use of machine learning, but their efforts so far don’t always yield the results they seek.
Business
If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: Factories Use AI for Predictive Maintenance
Factories are using AI to warn them when equipment is reaching the breaking point. Services that monitor machinery to predict imminent failure and provide guidance on necessary upkeep are booming, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Tech & Society
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.
Tech & Society
Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022
AI startups are creating high value across a wide variety of industries. CB Insights, which tracks tech startups, published the latest edition of the AI 100, its annual list of 100 notable AI startups.
Tech & Society
Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries
A wearable device may help warehouse workers avoid injuries. Modjoul, maker of a system that evaluates risks to people engaged in physical labor, received an undisclosed sum from Amazon as part of a $1 billion investment in technologies that might enhance the retailer giant’s operations.
Hardware
Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.
The hardware that runs the latest AI systems faces rising uncertainty as models grow larger and more computationally intensive. The U.S. Commerce Department sounded an alarm over bottlenecks in the availability of semiconductor chips.
Interviews & Essays
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.
Business
Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Startups are predicting how climate change will affect global commerce. Companies that specialize in climate analytics are training neural networks to help businesses manage risks posed by a warming globe,
Tech & Society
Super-Human Quality Control: AI finds manufacturing flaws better than human inspectors.
A computer vision model, continually trained and automatically updated, can boost quality control in factories. Landing AI, a machine learning platform company led by Andrew Ng, helped a maker of compressors for refrigeration check them for leaks.