Is ChatGPT the ‘iPhone moment’ for artificial intelligence (AI)? The iPhone catalysed many different things all in one device: It is hard to remember a time ‘before smartphones’, but the iPhone was only introduced in 2007. Apple is one of the world’s largest companies by market capitalisation, and there are many companies that make smartphones that are also quite...
On the 10 March 2023 episode of the Behind the Markets podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Blake Heimann, Senior Associate, Quantitative Research at WisdomTree. Within our team, we spend a lot of time talking about artificial intelligence (AI) with Blake, especially lately. Years ago, he was bitten by the bug, gaining a passion to study such things as...
The latter part of 2022 and the early part of 2023 have seen many developments around ‘generative AI’. The big story recently concerns the ChatGPT system. Conceptually, there is a prompt, and then the system can come up with text to match the prompt. ChatGPT has ‘gone viral’ in that many people have delighted in experimenting with different prompts to see what...
We have written a series of blogs on how artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing other megatrends: AI Continues to Build the Foundation for a Remarkable Future in Biology Can AI Replace People? The Truck-Driving Case Study The World Needs More Metals. Maybe AI can Find Them. By exploring these connections between themes, we can view AI less as a black box...
28 July 2022 was an historic day in both biology and artificial intelligence (AI). DeepMind, a firm specialising in AI research owned by Alphabet, made freely available the structural data on more than 200 million proteins from its AlphaFold tool. This represents data on roughly 1 million species and covers the vast majority of known proteins on earth1. In...