Posted May 12, 2023  By: Reda El Alami

On May 11^th Foresight attended the AUTM webinar “Generative AI has arrived : Essential Knowledge for TTOs”. The presenters were Dray McFarlane and Thomas Altman, CEOs from the company Tasio. The presenters provided history on AI, and how AI is constantly evolving. AI can be used in a variety of ways: audio to text, image manipulation, and the main focus of this webinar was ‘writing support’. The focus of this presentation was how to get the most out of AI for TTO’s. Specifically, the following 5 ideas that AI can: understand, create, refine, summarize, and translate. The presenters stated they use ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, and how it can act as an “intern” for you. Grant creation was a major focus in the webinar, and how you can create, critique, and regenerate grants. How you can import examples of successful grants so that the chatbot can use that when creating future grants, it can even use your writing style when creating projects, if you submit examples.

The presenters also mentioned that you can utilize the tool for technology scouting and matching. It can identify emerging technologies for commercialization opportunities, analyze patents and market data, and match technologies to industry needs for collaboration. This is not a fully operational tool, it should be fully operational by the end of 2023. If you have a list of patents, market data, or research papers, GPT can run these on a loop in the background and go through every patent that might be relevant, it can filter keywords, and can score the patents based on how you score them, it can help you commercialize patents. This is possible now, it’s again, not 100% ready, but it’s something to start utilizing. The main takeaway from this webinar was to start using ChatGPT in your workday. It’s an extremely useful tool to help make you more efficient and make daunting tasks more streamlined.