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The finance automation platform Ramp has acquired Cohere.io, an AI-powered customer support platform. The acquisition marks Ramp’s first foray into the world of generative AI, which is a sign of the growing importance of this technology in the finance industry. This is also a significant milestone for Ramp, as it is the company’s second acquisition since its inception in 2019 and the first since it purchased Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform, in August of 2021.

Ramp is a technology business that specializes in corporate credit cards and cost management in the financial technology (fintech) sector. The company was founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman, Gene Lee, and Karim Atiyeh and is… More.

In addition to improving the quality of customer support, generative AI is also likely to lead to new innovations in customer support. For example, generative AI could be used to create chatbots that are capable of having natural conversations with customers. This could help businesses provide customer support 24/7 while reducing the cost of support.

Generative AI is a powerful technology that has the potential to revolutionize the customer support industry. The acquisition of Cohere.io by Ramp indicates that this revolution is already underway.

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The company plans to equip the chatbot with features that helped AlphaGo defeat a human Go champion.

DeepMind, previously considered the undisputed leader in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) in the past decade, has now claimed that its next-generation AI model will surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revelation was made by company co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis in an interview with Wired.

DeepMind first made global news when Google decided to acquire the software company in 2014. Back then, the company pioneered the use of reinforcement learning to train its AI models, a method that provides AI feedback on its performance. DeepMind started off by employing the approach of teaching AI how to play video games.

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The Europe Union is introducing “crash test” systems for artificial intelligence to ensure new innovations are safe before they hit the market.

The trade bloc launched four permanent testing and experimental facilities across Europe on Tuesday, having injected €220 million ($240 million) into the project. The centers, which are virtual and physical, will from next year give technology providers a space to test AI and robotics in real-life settings within manufacturing, health care, agriculture and food, and cities.

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Weeds are one of the most “tedious, time-consuming and challenging” elements of farming, Carbon Robotics told Fox Business via email.

The LaserWeeder can eliminate over 200,000 weeds per hour and offer up to 80% cost savings in weed control.

Carbon Robotics CEO and founder Paul Mikesell “knows farmers and has a lot of friends who are farmers,” he said.

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Science fiction often paints a terrifying picture of the future—think aliens decimating humanity, à la The War of the Worlds. But sometimes the future becoming the present can be pretty amazing—who doesn’t love successful space launches majestically catapulting humans skyward?

Or take Earth’s oceans, which are currently in the middle of a technological revolution that, outside of some very nerdy circles, has gone largely unnoticed.

“We’re at the cusp of a proliferation of lots of autonomous vehicles in the ocean,” said Alex De Robertis, a biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “Things that were science fiction not so long ago are kind of routine now.” That includes saildrones, which look like oversized orange surfboards, each with a hard, carbon-fiber sail (called a wing) and a stash of scientific equipment.

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Despite our intrinsic distrust of AI in space taught to us by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey (“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave”), it offers large advantages to both manned and unmanned missions. To that end, NASA is developing a system that will allow astronauts to perform maneuvers, conduct experiments and more using a natural-language ChatGPT-like interface, The Guardian reported.

“The idea is to get to a point where we have conversational interactions with space vehicles and they [are] also talking back to us on alerts, interesting findings they see in the solar system and beyond,” said Dr. Larissa Suzuki, speaking at an IEEE meeting on next-gen space communication. “It’s really not like science fiction anymore.”

NASA aims to deploy the system on its Lunar Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and provide support for NASA’s Artemis mission. It would use a natural language interface that allows astronauts to seek advice on experiments or conduct maneuvers without diving into complex manuals.

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