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Morning Edition · Friday, August 21, 2026Published at 2:31 AM EDT · New York
Deployed Domain Assistants Show Where Language Models Actually Earn Their Keep
A virtual knowledge assistant has moved from prototype to production for petroleum engineers, and a companion paper tackles the unglamorous problem of recognizing bioinformatics software names in literature.
Two papers posted to arXiv today describe the version of applied artificial intelligence (AI) that rarely gets a launch event. The first tracks ATHENA, a virtual assistant built to capture, retrieve and disseminate knowledge for a community…
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