Nearly half of human resource leaders polled by consulting firm Gartner said they're in the process of formulating guidance on employees' use of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. What those policies will look like may end up varying widely. Some Wall Street firms, like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Group, have banned the chatbot, while hedge fund giant Citadel has embraced it. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

In their project report paper Do We Need Explainable AI in Companies? Investigation of Challenges, Expectations, and Chances from Employees' Perspective, Katharina Weitz, Chi Tai Dang and Elisabeth André investigated employees' specific needs and attitudes towards AI. In this interview, Katharina and Chi Tai tell us more about this work. Our paper examines the current state of AI use in companies. It is particularly important to us to capture the perspective of employees.

To survive and remain competitive in today's economic and business environment, organizations must lead large-scale changes. Constant organizational change is the new normal in an ever-changing political, social, and economical atmosphere. Artificial intelligence is one of the few innovations that have the potential to assist businesses to transcend significant commercial chasms. AI has immense potential to rocket businesses above the established order and adapts to the new dynamics in business operations. The year 2016 marked the beginning of the business world's recognition of AI potential.

Intel Corp. is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, to cut costs and cope with a sputtering personal-computer market, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs will be announced as early as this month, with the company planning to make the move around the same time as its third-quarter earnings report on Oct. 27, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. The chipmaker had 113,700 employees as of July. Some divisions, including Intel's sales and marketing group, could see cuts affecting about 20% of staff, according to the people. Intel is facing a steep decline in demand for PC processors, its main business, and has struggled to win back market share lost to rivals like Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

An early prototype of Tesla Inc.'s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned and waved to a cheering crowd at the company's artificial intelligence event Friday, Sept. 30. But the basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics -- as well as a later, next-generation version that had to be carried onstage by three men -- was a long way from CEO Elon Musk's vision of a human-like robot that can change the world. Musk told the crowd, many of whom might be hired by Tesla, that the robot can do much more than the audience saw on Sept. 30. He said it is also delicate and "we just didn't want it to fall on its face." Musk suggested that the problem with flashy robot demonstrations is that the robots are "missing a brain" and don't have the intelligence to navigate themselves, but he gave little evidence on Sept. 30 that Optimus was any more intelligent than robots developed by other companies and researchers.

An early prototype of Tesla Inc.'s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company's artificial intelligence event Friday. But the basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics -- as well as a later, next generation version that had to be carried onstage by three men -- was a long way from CEO Elon Musk's vision of a human-like robot that can change the world. Musk told the crowd, many of whom might be hired by Tesla, that the robot can do much more than the audience saw Friday. He said it is also delicate and "we just didn't want it to fall on its face." Musk suggested that the problem with flashy robot demonstrations is that the robots are "missing a brain" and don't have the intelligence to navigate themselves, but he gave little evidence Friday that Optimus was any more intelligent than robots developed by other companies and researchers.

An early prototype of Tesla Inc.'s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company's artificial intelligence event Friday. But the basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics -- as well as a later, next generation version that had to be carried onstage by three men -- was a long way from CEO Elon Musk's vision of a human-like robot that can change the world. Musk told the crowd, many of whom might be hired by Tesla, that the robot can do much more than the audience saw Friday. He said it is also delicate and "we just didn't want it to fall on its face." Musk suggested that the problem with flashy robot demonstrations is that the robots are "missing a brain" and don't have the intelligence to navigate themselves, but he gave little evidence Friday that Optimus was any more intelligent than robots developed by other companies and researchers.

What differentiates human beings from robots is their ability to think. Robots can manage rule-based tasks for us but will not be able to analyze or strategize for us. Let's evaluate what RPA can help us achieve and what it can completely replace. Robotic Process Automation, more commonly referred to as RPA, involves programming software to automate manual processes across applications. The goal is to decrease the burden of repetitive and redundant tasks on employees.

Five teams from the Netherlands, South Korea and China have advanced to the final stage of a competition to see who can grow fresh tomatoes in greenhouses remotely using artificial intelligence. The second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge, which is organised by Dutch academic powerhouse Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent, began in September with a 24-hour hackathon involving 21 international teams and more than 200 participants from 26 countries. The five winning teams – Netherlands-based AiCU, The Automators and Automatoes, China'sIUA.CAAS and Korea'sDigilog – will each be given six months' access to a real greenhouse in the Dutch town of Bleiswijk, where from December onwards they will attempt to control and produce a tomato crop from afar by employing AI algorithms to keep inputs like water, nutrients and energy at sustainable levels. September's hackathon, held at WUR, saw an international jury award points to each team based on their composition and competence, their application of AI technology and the net profit they made during a virtual tomato production game. During their pitches, the teamswere given access to a climate model and a tomato crop growth model previously developed by researchers at WUR.

Cameo has laid off 87 employees after becoming a Unicorn -- Cameo, a platform that allows fans to buy personalized videos from celebrities, has laid off 87 members of its staff, according to a tweet from CEO Steven Galanis. The layoffs, as first reported by The Information, impacted a quarter of the overall workforce and was a result of the company needing to balance costs with cash reserves. "Today has been a brutal day at the office. I made the painful decision to let go of 87 beloved members of the Cameo Fameo," Galanis wrote on Twitter. "If you're looking to hire hungry, humble, smart, kind, curious, learning machines who love to win – and you see Cameo on their resume – look no further."