Explore the full 2023 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 540 organizations that are reshaping industries and culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact across 54 catego...
It has been over 15 years since the phrase “data is the new oil” appeared on the radar of enterprise CIOs. Since then, enterprise data stacks have evolved to support complex business intelligence task...
AI has become an integral part of many businesses. Whether we accept the technology or not, I believe it is here to stay. Today, companies use AI to perform tasks like consumer behavior analysis, bug ...
WHAT IF YOUR inbox were jam-packed with AI-generated emails? You may already be on the receiving end of emails written by artificial intelligence, with the help of a human prompter. Austin Distel, a s...
What is artificial intelligence? Most of us probably think we have a general idea — or that we should have a general idea — of the answer to that question. But don’t be ashamed if you don’t; it’s cert...
Are new regulations needed to safeguard AI use, or will best practices recommendations and existing laws be enough? And how can privacy frameworks set the groundwork for responsible AI practices? Many...
During oral arguments last week for Gonzalez v. Google, a case about whether social networks are liable for recommending terrorist content, the Supreme Court stumbled on a separate cutting-edge legal ...
Whether it’s Alexa, Bixby, Siri, Google or Cortana, you are probably using conversational AI from your phone to your car. Conversational AI is a special branch of artificial intelligence that simply e...
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), the advances we saw in 2021 pale in comparison to those that occurred last year, and AI shows no signs of slowing down. Industries from financial service...
Microsoft will roll out on Tuesday an update to Windows 11 that puts its new AI-powered Bing capabilities front and center on its taskbar, one of the operating system’s most widely used features, in t...
The warm light of friendship, intimacy and romantic love illuminates the best aspects of being human – while also casting a deep shadow of possible heartbreak. But what happens when it’s not a human b...
Large language models like ChatGPT are purveyors of plausibility. The chatbots, many based on so-called generative AI, are trained to respond to user questions by scraping the internet for relevant in...
As computing and AI advancements spanning decades are enabling incredible opportunities for people and society, they’re also raising questions about responsible development and deployment. For example...
In the nineteen-sixties, Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., created a computer program called Eliza. It was designed to simulate Rogerian therapy, in which the patient directs the conv...
“The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control,” mathematician and science fictio...