Editor's Picks (November 2022)

Before the US contingent headed off, we grabbed AI Business editor Deborah Yao to give the November run-down on the three things you need to know from the AI news cycle this month...

Happy Thanksgiving! This week marks a cherished U.S. holiday that is celebrated with family, feasting and football.

FIFA World Cup Prediction

Speaking of football – but not the American kind – this week marks the start of the FIFA World Cup championship in Qatar. Brazil, Argentina and France are the top three favorites to win, according to bettors. Or will England stage an upset and finally end its long drought?

AI weighs in: AI Picks 2022 FIFA World Cup Champion

Generative AI’s Dark Side

Meta AI researchers hastily withdrew Galactica only days after its public debut. The large language model was trained on millions of scientific papers so it can generate content, as well as suggest citations and references, in a bid to help researchers write.

But problems quickly emerged. Renowned experts said Galactica generated “statistical nonsense” and surfaced “wrong” information that is written in an academically authoritative style – making it “dangerous.”

Read more from Ben Wodecki : Meta’s Galactica AI Criticized as ‘Dangerous’ for Science

Making AI Projects Work at Scale

Companies globally are spending billions of dollars in AI systems and yet their investments are not yielding the results they were looking for, according to an inaugural study by 印孚瑟斯 .

Three areas of improvement are developing data practices that encourage sharing, binding explanations into advanced AI, and focusing AI teams on business.

Read all about it: 3 Ways to Raise the Success Rate of AI Projects

Deborah will be reporting live from The AI Summit New York next month and broadcasting on AI Business TV.