The Brief

“Today’s industrial robotics are required to intelligently react and adjust to changes in the immediate surroundings, including safety functions when you have encroachment of the physical workspace”

Bjorn Andersson

Senior Director, Global IoT, Hitachi Vantara

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BY THE NUMBERS

WILL BOTS SUCCEED WHERE HUMANS HAVE FAILED WITH CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY?

YES 61% 39% NO

“Retailers and brands must align their offerings and capabilities with these new consumer expectations that have emerged from the crucible of COVID”

Camilla Freeman

Strategic Analytics Consultant AI & Analytics, IBM Consulting

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“AI bias can be detected and mitigated, but, often, it cannot be completely eliminated, because of intersectionality issues”

Francesca Rossi

IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM

READ MORE ARE ORGANISATIONS EVOLVING THEIR USE OF AI FOR AUTOMATION?

A new Gartner survey has found that organisations are adopting AI to help with automation, but multiple challenges still remain

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TOP 10 AI LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SERVICES

AI Magazine takes a look at enterprise AI translation services helping companies around the world engage with new clients in their own language

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ARE WE READY TO HAND HUMANITY’S FUTURE OVER TO AI?

AI could contribute up to US$5.2tn to the global economy by the end of the decade, all in the name of sustainability

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ROBOT WAITERS FOR GOOGLE EMPLOYEES

Google employees will soon have access to robots to get chips and soda from company break rooms for them.

The ‘Ok Google’ feature has not been incorporated in the robots yet. In a media report, Google said that they are forming these robots with a sense of responsibility.

This is being done to avoid the robots turning into surveillance machines or answering back with offensive or foul language.

While Google says it is pursuing development responsibly, adoption could ultimately stall over ongoing concerns, which include robots being used as surveillance machines or being equipped with chat technology that can give offensive responses – as experienced in Meta tests amid other examples in recent years. "It's going to take a while before we can really have a firm grasp on the direct commercial impact," said Vincent Vanhoucke, Senior Director for Google's robotics research.  MICROSOFT Gartner has recognised Microsoft as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, with Microsoft placed furthest in “Completeness of Vision”.

 SINGAPORE Google has revealed a package of new investments for Singapore that include opening a new data centre, securing an AI partnership with the government, and expanding its training programme.

 OPENAI’S DALL·E Following the second release of DALL·E, users began to report examples of bias. Phrases such as “a builder” only produced images featuring men, while the caption “a flight attendant” produced images only of women.

 META Meta released an AI chatbot, Blenderbot, that anyone in the US can talk with. Immediately, users all over the country started posting the AI’s condemnations of Facebook, while pointing out that it’s really easy to get the AI to spread racist stereotypes and conspiracy theories.