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The artificial intelligence (AI) boom is transforming industries and reshaping work. Now, it’s setting its sights on a long-overlooked tool: your work laptop.
The reach and capabilities of AI models go far beyond what people have seen from tinkering around with ChatGPT, which, although a great tool for proofreading or debugging code, only gives a brief glimpse into what large language models (LLMs), the technology powering tools like the chatbot, can do.
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For instance, HCLTech, a consulting firm, worked with one of the largest end-to-end healthcare providers in the US to help implement a user-friendly, compliant AI clinical advisor. The clinical advisor, trained using one of the world’s largest clinical libraries, allows medical professionals to conversationally ask for the information they need to consult without spending time digging for it.
According to Alan Flower, EVP and head of AI & Cloud Native Labs at HCLTech, running the models locally on the device was key to effectively implementing this model.
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