$4 billion worth of commitments just for AI: Karan Batta of Oracle
Karan Batta, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), talks to BT about Cloud, generative AI and a lot more
- Sep 20, 2023,
- Updated Sep 30, 2023 1:39 PM IST
As an early adopter of artificial intelligence (AI), Oracle is accelerating its deployment of AI and machine learning technologies across its apps and cloud infrastructure services. During the Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas, the company introduced innovative generative AI solutions in industries ranging from healthcare to helping organisations improve customer service.
KB: Models are susceptible to hallucinations. You don’t want the model playing the doctor or the provider. The human needs to still be in the loop to be able to check. It’s okay asking a model to go book your flights or book your hotel and build your itinerary. It’s a whole different thing when you’re recommending medicines, and you’re writing prescriptions as there’s actual impact on human life. There’s a clear delineation between the two. We’re definitely much more cautious. During the last earnings, we announced X AI, so we will be working with Elon Musk’s X AI company as well to run their models on top of us. And so, we have a lot of focus and effort on making sure that areas where there needs to be a human in the loop, still happens.
Also read: Oracle integrates generative AI in healthcare, unveils new clinical digital assistant
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As an early adopter of artificial intelligence (AI), Oracle is accelerating its deployment of AI and machine learning technologies across its apps and cloud infrastructure services. During the Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas, the company introduced innovative generative AI solutions in industries ranging from healthcare to helping organisations improve customer service.
KB: Models are susceptible to hallucinations. You don’t want the model playing the doctor or the provider. The human needs to still be in the loop to be able to check. It’s okay asking a model to go book your flights or book your hotel and build your itinerary. It’s a whole different thing when you’re recommending medicines, and you’re writing prescriptions as there’s actual impact on human life. There’s a clear delineation between the two. We’re definitely much more cautious. During the last earnings, we announced X AI, so we will be working with Elon Musk’s X AI company as well to run their models on top of us. And so, we have a lot of focus and effort on making sure that areas where there needs to be a human in the loop, still happens.
Also read: Oracle integrates generative AI in healthcare, unveils new clinical digital assistant
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