Making AI & NLP solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science and related fields. When embarking on an artificial intelligence (AI) project, there's a lot of discussion about choosing the right tool to execute on your vision. While this is an important part of the equation, it skips a crucial first step: finding the right library. But with so many tools and libraries on the market, how do decision-makers find the best fit for the job at hand? Defining the nature of your project is a good place to start. At my company, John Snow Labs, we often get compared to Allen NLP, Stanza, SciSpacy and other libraries that are focused on academic use cases.

In the classroom of the future--if there still are any--it's easy to imagine the endpoint of an arms race: an artificial intelligence that generates the day's lessons and prompts, a student-deployed A.I. that will surreptitiously do the assignment, and finally, a third-party A.I. that will determine if any of the pupils actually did the work with their own fingers and brain. Loop complete; no humans needed. If you were to take all the hype about ChatGPT at face value, this might feel inevitable. But a response to the hit software demo, released by OpenAI in November to instant fanfare, is coming. You only have to look at how schools dealt with the potential externalities of newly essential tech during the pandemic to see how a similarly paranoid reaction to chatbots like ChatGPT could go--and how it shouldn't. When schools had to shift on the fly to remote learning three years ago, there was a massive turn to what at that point was mainly enterprise software: Zoom.

Artificial-intelligence tools are becoming increasingly adept at autogenerating text, raising concerns around authorship and research integrity.

Every year, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI improves its text-writing bot, GPT. And every year, the internet responds with shrieks of woe about the impending end of human-penned prose. This cycle repeated last week when OpenAI launched ChatGPT--a version of GPT that can seemingly spit out any text, from a Mozart-styled piano piece to the history of London in the style of Dr. Seuss. The response on Twitter was unanimous: The college essay is doomed. Why slave over a paper when ChatGPT can write an original for you?