OpenAI Patents a Way for Its AI to Call Outside Tools Without Being Programmed to Do So
Most AI chatbots can only answer questions from what they already know. This OpenAI patent describes a system where the AI figures…
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Adobe Patents AI That Spots Patterns Across Records of How Customers Behave
Adobe is teaching an AI to sort through stacks of customer journey maps, find the ones that actually drove results, and answer…
IBM Patents Technology That Reconstructs Complete Images From Incomplete Fragments
Show a neural network half a photo and it can fill in the rest from memory. IBM's new patent describes exactly that…
Microsoft Patent Teaches AI Prompts to Automatically Select Their Most Relevant Data
Every time an AI assistant pulls in outside information to answer your question, someone had to decide what order that information should…
Microsoft Patent Would Auto-Summon Absent Colleagues When Meetings Require Their Input
Missing a meeting you were only half-invited to is annoying. Microsoft has a patent for an AI that sits in on your…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Gives You Turn-by-Turn Directions Inside Buildings
GPS stops working the moment you step through a door, and most buildings offer nothing better than a paper map on the…
IBM Patent Stops Unauthorized AI-Generated Answers From Reaching Restricted Users
When a company's AI assistant is trained on confidential documents, what stops a low-clearance employee from asking the right question and getting…
Samsung Patents an On-Device AI That Picks the Right Power-Saving Mode for You
Your phone already has power-saving modes. Samsung's new patent wants your phone to decide, on its own, which one to switch on…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Give AI Teammates a Visual Presence in Group Sessions
When robots and AI assistants join a mission alongside humans, how does anyone know which AI is doing what? Microsoft's latest patent…
IBM Patents Technology That Sorts Millions of Records Using a Text-Prediction Engine
IBM has filed a patent that feeds a classic data-sorting algorithm into the same kind of neural network architecture that powers modern…
Microsoft Patents a Three-Layer Memory System for AI Assistants
Most AI chatbots forget you the moment you close the window. Microsoft's new patent describes a structured memory system that lets a…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Learns Tasks by Watching Someone Else Do Them
Microsoft wants to turn a single recorded walkthrough into an on-demand AI tutor, so the next person tackling the same task can…
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