Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here. If you feel a sudden urge to smile when you see this rock, you’re in good company.  As humans, we often irrationally describe human-like behaviors to objects with some, but not all, characteristics (also known as anthropomorphism) — and we’re seeing this occur more and more with AI. In some instances, anthropomorphism looks like saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when interacting with a chat bot or praising generative AI when the output matches your expectations.  But etiquette aside, the real challenge here is when you see AI ‘reason’ with a simple task (like summarizing this article) then expect it to effectively perform the same on an anthology of complex scientific articles. Or, when you see a model generate an answer about Microsoft’s recent earnings call and expect it to perform market research by providing the model with the same earnings transcripts of 10 other companies

Cleveland artificial intelligence startup Pandata has been acquired by a South Carolina-based AI, data and analytics company.