Intel Corp. and Boston Consulting Group announced that they are collaborating to market generative artificial intelligence products to major corporations.

 

Popular chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can respond to inquiries with text that resembles that of a human, are examples of generative AI technology. Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc., the company that owns Google, are redesigning their search engines to use artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver answers to queries rather than lists of links.

 

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Intel collaborated on a comparable technology so that BCG staff members could make greater use of the organization's 50-year-old archives, much of which are in the form of reports and presentations. Before, BCG staff members had to use a keyword search and click through each document to determine whether it had the information they were looking for.

 

With the new method, the AI system may summarise entire texts or use the archive to respond to requests from staff.

 

"We're in the knowledge business and the expertise business. Rarely are we just looking for one piece of something on the page," said Suchi Srinivasan, a managing director and partner at BCG.

 

The system was created on a supercomputer that Intel constructed using its Xeon CPUs and Habana AI chips. In order to prevent BCG from having to share its data with Intel, Intel constructed the supercomputer and software.

 

"The number of times Intel actually saw that data is zero," said Kavitha Prasad, Intel's vice president and general manager of data center, AI and cloud execution and strategy.

 

According to Intel and BCG, they intend to start selling some of the technology they have created to assist other businesses in training AI systems using their customers' proprietary data without having to share that data with Intel or BCG.