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Supply chain is an industry unlike any other, with at least 25% or more of the total number of people employed touching everyday processes and decisions.
Peggy’s Tech Blog:
When to Worry about AI Psychosis
If you follow my blog, then you know last week I penned an article about researchers determining if AI (artificial intelligence) can solve your morning sudoku. The results were interesting to say the least. But the biggest concern is sometimes the AI explanations made-up facts (no we are not talking fake news here, that’s a conversation for another day) and in one case when asked about solving a puzzle, the AI responded with a weather forecast. This had me down a rabbit hole if there can be an even deeper, darker side, and it led me to AI psychosis. Are we in a world gone mad? This is a real issue we need to be aware of right now, before we all dump big bucks into AI, and say, OH Sh.., we are all fired!
Let’s dig in a bit because several organizations are doing research on this trend, and various organizations define AI psychosis a little bit differently.
Expert Opinion:
Cobots on the Rise
I like to use real world examples to illustrate the technology about which I write, and especially for technology around which swirl clouds of hype and fantasy. When it comes to cobots there’s no lack of these. It was therefore refreshing to read a report issued by The Association for Advancing Automation, which provided a new benchmark for the adoption of cobots:
Peggy Smedley Show:
Agentic AI at Frontier Firms
Episode 934 | 8.26.25 | Segment 2
Peggy Smedley and Yury Gomez, global commercial head for supply chain manufacturing and mobility industries, Microsoft, talk about the acceleration of AI (artificial intelligence) and agentic AI. She says supply chains are getting drastically overwhelmed once again, with geopolitical conflicts, but the good news is Microsoft is changing how the supply chain is done with technology because technology is really changing the game.
They also discuss:
What a Frontier Firm is and how agentic AI can help Frontier Firms.
Examples of case studies where agentic AI is helping in the supply chain.
Three areas where companies need to intensify.
Peggy Smedley Show:
AI Attempts Sudoku
Episode 934 | 8.26.25 | Segment 3
Peggy Smedley and Maria Pacheco, assistant professor of computer science, University of Colorado Boulder, discuss the results of a study surrounding AI (artificial intelligence) solving sudoku puzzles. She says the more complex the problems, the more difficult the time the tools had at solving them.
They also discuss:
Why even the best tools had a hard time reasoning why they came to an answer.
The three stages to the language models acquiring the knowledge.
The main danger that exists and how we can use them for what they are good at.
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Success Stories: AI and Antibodies Collide
The process to create medicines and treatments for new infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases is slow and expensive, sometimes taking more than a decade and billions of dollars to bring a drug to market. Can AI (artificial intelligence) help speed antibody drug discovery? New university research aims to help accelerate medical response.
A $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will support work at The University of Texas in Arlington in applying machine learning to design antibodies that bind to viruses and other antigens. Junzhou Huang, Jenkins Garrett Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, aims to use AI to automate and improve the early stages of drug development, specifically antibody design.
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