Much ink has been spilled over OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. Some see it as a Google heir. Others challenge its accuracy and utility. Best-selling author, futurist, and columnist Chuck Martin grills the bot on the topic of healthcare to find the chinks in AI’s armor and its strengths.

As AI becomes ever more commonplace in all industries, surprises along the way will be inevitable. Some will be beneficial, and others will be harmful, while all will be unexpected. The way governments, businesses, universities, institutes, and individuals deal with these surprises will go far toward shaping how AI unfolds in coming years and decades.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely impacted the pace of AI innovation by accelerating existing trends and giving rise to new ones, thus raising the bar of possibility. Companies have also benefited from sharing their technology or expertise at no cost, aiding the fight against the pandemic and speeding vaccine development. Many of these trends will hold post-pandemic and reshape the global business terrain.

Never has the saying ‘two heads are better than one’ been more applicable than in trying to utilize the phenomenon of artificial intelligence. Best-selling author Chuck Martin urges businesses to seek outside help to make progress in AI.

The global pandemic accelerated the growing adoption of AI in business, but its deployment varies by country. The most AI deployments are in China followed by India, Singapore, Italy, US and Spain, according to an IBM study. However, every company in the study is exploring AI, no matter the current level of deployment. This means even more deployments beyond the developing proofs of concept stage are on the horizon across the globe.

Technology has been used for decades to detect colon cancer. A new artificial intelligence device based on machine learning and authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration will revolutionize the procedure by helping clinicians detect lesions, such as polyps or suspected tumors, in the colon in real time during a colonoscopy.