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Artificial intelligence is virtually everywhere now. Companies are recognizing that they need to adopt the technology in their businesses, but given all the possibilities it offers, it’s hard to know where to start.During Business Insider’s virtual event “Human-AI Collaboration: The Key to Workplace Efficiency and Innovation,” presented by Dell Technologies, a panel of business leaders and innovation experts advised workplaces on how to integrate AI into their systems.One of the biggest hurdles…

The November 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT kicked off the latest wave of interest in AI, but it came with some serious issues. People could ask questions on almost any topic, but many of the large language model’s answers were uselessly generic — or completely wrong. No, ChatGPT, the population of Mars is not 2.5 billion.Such problems still plague large language models. But there’s a solution: retrieval-augmented generation. This technique, invented in 2020 by a group of researchers at Meta’s…

The fusion of human ingenuity and machine intelligence is offering an innovative approach to personalized mental-health care. By leveraging AI technology, clinicians and behavioral-health-care facilities can provide tailored treatments for people with conditions such as depression and addiction. They can also use AI to assess the quality of their services and find ways to improve as providers of mental-health care.These advancements also bring up important ethical and privacy considerations. As…

A quiet revolution is taking root. As the world grapples with deforestation and environmental decay — Earth lost almost 70,000 acres of forestland in 2023 alone, according to Global Forest Watch — modern robotics technology provides innovative ways to restore forests.Technology and land-management companies, in particular, are harnessing tech such as drones and seed-tracking software to plant seeds and seedlings — an approach that excels over the time-consuming method of manual planting.The tech…

In early March, Chadwick Burnaw found himself in a South Austin parking lot, surrounded by the sounds and flavors of the Caribbean community he’d been raised in. Over the years, Burnaw has called several places home, including the Washington, DC, metro area, San Francisco, and now Austin, where he recently staged the latest Sazón Latin Food Festival, a traveling food fest that’s made pit stops in Texas and California.Burnaw went to college at San Francisco State University, and he was always sea…

Steps away from the glistening Victoria Harbour sits the Peninsula Hotel.The flagship hotel in the Peninsula Hotels group, which boasts properties worldwide, opened in December 1928, making it one of the oldest hotels in Hong Kong. The original building only housed six floors and was the tallest building in the city when it was built.Now, the hotel has a 30-story tower, more than 50 hotel suites, nine restaurants and lounges, a spa, and what they call a “shopping arcade,” or an intimate mall fea…

Marine plastic pollution is one of the most troubling environmental issues. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, about 14 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, accounting for 80% of ocean debris.CleanHub, a Berlin startup, is tackling this environmental crisis with artificial intelligence. The company, founded in 2019 by the entrepreneur Joel Tasche, has developed an AI-powered platform that allows local waste-management services to collect and prop…

Raquel Lewandowski has been working as a call taker at a call center in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, for nearly 30 years.In that time, she’s seen technology modernize emergency-response services to better serve people who need assistance. She recalled one instance where she used an app to direct a woman who was lost at the 1,000-acre John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.“Lights are going out, and she doesn’t have that much left on her phone, and she’s scared, and she doesn’t know how…

With more workplaces implementing remote- or hybrid-work models, planning a company overnight retreat can have huge benefits.A 2023 report from Perceptyx, a platform that provides employee analytics and leadership coaching, found that “more than four in ten employees reported feeling ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ lonely at work.” Along with offering opportunities to brainstorm and collaborate, an annual company retreat can help combat loneliness, boost morale, and motivate employees.Business Insider aske…

Jill Stark remembers the dazzling production of “The Flying Dutchman” as if she were a part of it. In a way, she was.While watching the opera, which was put on by the Lyric Opera of Chicago in October, Stark wore an innovation called the SoundShirt. The garment allowed her to feel the sound of the opera by transmitting haptic sensations to microactuators — devices that produce controlled movement — that were embedded in the fabric.The SoundShirt wirelessly received sound data captured by microph…