From pandemic chaos to AI, supply chain panelists have seen it all lately

NEW YORK — Think about what a supply chain leader has gone through in the past few years.

There was the pandemic that at first looked like it would crater demand for virtually all goods and services once the toilet paper rush ran its course.

Then came the whiplash in no time when huge demand for goods replaced demand for services that couldn’t be provided during lockdowns, and the transport and supply of those products failed to keep up. The end result: Old ways of doing business in the supply...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/from-pandemic-chaos-to-ai-supply-chain-panelists-have-seen-it-all-lately

Generative AI can be ‘quite powerful’ in supply chain 

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit on Wednesday. 

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Where generative AI fits in the supply chain.

DETAILS: Generative AI can revolutionize the supply chain industry through fraud protection, route optimization and efficiency enhancements, according to Crowley Maritime’s Anoop Mohandas. 

SPEAKER: Mohandas is a product manager at Crowley Maritime

KEY QUOTES FROM MOHANDAS:

“Generative AI is this new technology that’s based on largely large...

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Waabi signs 10-year autonomous trucking pact with Uber Freight

The contraction of autonomous trucking developers is leaving openings for new players like Waabi Innovation Inc., which has signed a 10-year deal to haul cargo on the Uber Freight network.

Toronto-based Waabi was founded in June 2021 by Raquel Urtasun. She formerly ran the Canadian office of Uber’s Autonomous Technology Group that was sold to Aurora Innovation in 2020. Waabi raised $83.5 million with investments from Aurora and Uber in a round led by Khosla Ventures in 2021. Volvo Group Venture...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/waabi-signs-10-year-autonomous-trucking-pact-with-uber-freight

Generative AI: How Business-Changing Solutions Like ChatGPT Could Be Used

Credit: Hitesh Choudhary/Unsplash

The game of artificial intelligence is evolving thanks to generative AI and other foundation models, which are also speeding up application development and giving non-technical people access to significant capabilities, as reported by McKinsey.

ChatGPT

In the spirit of this article’s topic, we asked ChatGPT—a generative AI language model that can create original content in response to a user prompt—how it would set the context. Our prompt to the system:

ChatGPT’s...

https://mfame.guru/generative-ai-how-business-changing-solutions-like-chatgpt-could-be-used/

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