Q&A: Chaz Perera, Roots Automation
Chaz Perera, CEO and co-founder of Roots Automation, tells Insurance Post about the firm’s generative artificial intelligence model InsurGPT, which is specially trained for insurance, and the challenges in the industry this technology is primed to solve.
What led you to launch Roots Automation?While running claims operations at AIG, I noticed that everybody was 45 or 55 and thinking about retirement, but there wasn’t a lot of work being done to bring
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