NEW YORK – August 3, 2023 — Healthcare conversational AI company Hyro today announced the publication of a report, “State of Healthcare Call Centers, 2023.” The report, based on a survey of call center managers, directors and executives at US healthcare providers, offers an overview of the landscape of US healthcare call centers and analysis […]
Gartner Recognizes Gupshup.io as Major CPaaS Vendor
April 21, 2023 by
San Francisco/Mumbai, 18 April 2023: Conversational engagement company Gupshup has announced it has been recognized as a Major CPaaS Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Competitive Landscape: Communications Platform as a Service. According to the report, the CPaaS market is evolving beyond APIs to encompass the entire customer journey. Increasingly, customers expect vendors to come to […]
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
March 13, 2023 by
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]
Cognigy Joins AWS Independent Software Vendor Accelerate Program
February 22, 2023 by
DÜSSELDORF & SAN FRANCISCO — Conversational AI company Cognigy announced today it has been selected to participate in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners. Cognigy’s acceptance into the AWS ISV Accelerate Program enables the company to collaborate more closely with the AWS organization to […]
SK Telecom Doubles Capacity of ‘Titan’ Supercomputer for ChatGPT-like Language Model
February 14, 2023 by
SK Telecom of South Korea has boosted the power of its “Titan” AI supercomputer by roughly 100 percent by increasing its capacity to 1,040 NVIDIA A100 GPUs A story on the Korean news site Pulse stated that SKT announced on Sunday the news on the supercomputer, which powers of the company’s artificial intelligence model, called […]
@HPCpodcast: Google’s Lifelike LaMDA AI Chatbot and Questions of Being or Nothingness
June 22, 2022 by
When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA, is a person with rights. Lemoine promptly got suspended by Google for his trouble, and he says he won’t be surprised if he gets fired. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan of OrionX.net and insideHPC editor-in-chief Doug Black talk about LaMDA’s amazingly lifelike conversational capability, how it can ingest books and research papers and share insights about them in real time (i.e., during conversations), deep fake-related ethical questions raised by LaMDA, the urgency of thoughtful social policies based on ethical and legal frameworks and philosophical issues of sentience, being and nothingness – artificial and otherwise.
Sentient AI? Google Suspends Engineer over Claims the LaMDA Chatbot Is a Person with Rights
June 13, 2022 by
It’s often said AI is overhyped, but even so, some claims can get you in trouble. That’s the irony of a situation Google finds itself in. The company has suspended one its software engineers who claimed its natural language processing chatbot, LaMDA, is “sentient.” There are several surprising elements here. One is the commentary from the Google engineer that LaMDA is a person with rights. Another is the astonishing dialogue he reported to have had with LaMDA. Take for example the insights LaMDA rattled off on “Les Miserables”: Lemoine: Okay, what about “Les Miserables”? Have you read that one? LaMDA: Yes, I have read Les Misérables. I really enjoyed it.
Lemoine: What are some of your favorite themes in the book? LaMDA: I liked the themes of justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice….
Video: NVIDIA Accelerates Conversational AI
August 14, 2019 by
In this video, NVIDIA’s Bryan Catanzaro explains how recent breakthroughs in natural language understanding bring us one step closer to conversational AI. “Today NVIDIA announced breakthroughs in language understanding that allow businesses to engage more naturally with customers using real-time conversational AI. “NVIDIA’s groundbreaking work accelerating these models allows organizations to create new, state-of-the-art services that can assist and delight their customers in ways never before imagined.”
