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Building a Digital Person: Design Best Practices
August 10, 2023
Digital humans or digital people are emerging as a scalable touchpoint for customers across various markets. After creating FCAT’s own digital brand ambassador, the FCAT AIX team is sharing best practices for designing digital people and their...
A Conversation on the Future of AI with Stephen Wolfram
July 17, 2023
Generative AI is all the rage now. Coverage of tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E2, and Midjourney has been breathless, with pundits and practitioners predicting either doom or a new golden age for computing. What is really going on here?
Generative AI is Already Making Inroads in Healthcare
July 10, 2023
Generative AI is in its infancy, yet patients are using this technology to understand complex medical issues, get second opinions, and receive support and motivation. Medical professionals also stand to benefit by saving time on documentation and...
Explainable AI Using Expressive Boolean Formulas
June 8, 2023
Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab and FCAT proposed and implemented an interpretable machine learning model for Explainable AI (XAI) based on expressive Boolean formulas.
Can AI Speed Up Blockchain Development?
April 20, 2023
This article was written in collaboration with Erman Akdogan of Fidelity Enterprise Cybersecurity and Chris McGahon of the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. All figures were generated in February using ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 model).
AI: The Next Generation
March 8, 2023
We’re in a new era of AI. “It feels like we’re going from spring to summer,” said Jack Clark, a co-chair of Stanford University’s annual A.I. Index Report. “In spring, you have these vague suggestions of progress, and little green shoots everywhere....
Why all the Fuss about ChatGPT?
February 14, 2023
While most of the AI buzz of 2022 was around AI image generators like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, the year ended with a bang with the release of OpenAI’s new text generator ChatGPT. Attracting over 1 million users just a few days...
2022: The Year of the AI Image Generator
November 22, 2022
While 2021 was the year of monster AI language models and AI text generation, thanks to powerful language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3,1 it seems that 2022 is the year of text-to-image AI systems. We’ve seen AI art before – just last year Sophia the...
Human Centered AI: Q & A with Ben Shneiderman
August 18, 2022
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including human-centered AI...
Synthetic Biology: No Longer Life As We Know It?
May 10, 2022
Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers. FCAT recently hosted Amy Webb, founder...