Artificial Intelligence
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NVIDIA GTC 2024: A Glimpse Into the Future of AI With Jensen Huang
NVIDIA’s GTC 2024 AI conference will set the stage for another leap forward in AI. At the heart of this highly anticipated event: the opening keynote by Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s visionary founder and CEO, who speaks on Monday, March 18, at 1 p.m. Pacific, at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Planning Your GTC Experience There…
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Domain-Specific AI Apps: A Three-Step Design Pattern For Specializing LLMs
The world of AI has undergone a transformation with the rise of large language models (LLMs). These advanced models, often regarded as the zenith of current natural language processing (NLP) innovations, excel at crafting human-like text for a wide array of domains. A trend gaining traction is the tailoring of LLMs for specific fields —…
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AI: Will Governance Catch Up With The Tech In 2024?
If 2023 was the year the world became familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year in which governments will act in earnest on its governance? That’s the question put to guests on the latest episode of the World Economic Forum podcast Radio Davos. The following article is based on conversations, recorded at Davos 2024,…
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How AI Is Helping Advance Women’s Health Around The World
For International Women’s day, we’re sharing AI solutions that can improve early diagnosis, quality and access to care for women’s health worldwide. AI offers an unprecedented opportunity to enhance global well-being and human health — particularly women’s health. For most of history, women’s health has faced systemic barriers including limited access to funding and research,…
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Usher’s New Look Embarks on AI-Focused Collaboration with IBM to Set Students up for Career Success
AUSTIN, Texas, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SXSW EDU — Usher’s New Look (UNL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to provide free career readiness training through IBM SkillsBuild. With a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and professional workplace skills, IBM will provide UNL with training and customized learning plans for student learners. This effort aims to benefit thousands of UNL’s…
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI Alleging Breach Of Founding Agreement
The lawsuit could hold far reaching implications for Microsoft’s use of GPT-4 and other upcoming models in its products. Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s founding board members and investors, has filed a lawsuit against the company and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that the now Microsoft-financed creator of ChatGPT has breached its founding mission. “This…
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4 Ways AI Could Transform The Economy As We Know It
The European Central Bank – but could AI soon usurp its role?Image: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay Artificial intelligence is catalyzing significant paradigm shifts in the economic landscape, including the redefinition of currency with AI tokens, a new metric of economic efficiency measured in computational energy use, and the unparalleled influence wielded by AI foundation models. The monopolistic nature…
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Introducing The Next Generation Of Claude
Today, we’re announcing the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Each successive model offers increasingly powerful performance, allowing users to select the optimal balance…
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Microsoft And Mistral AI Announce New Partnership To Accelerate AI Innovation And Introduce Mistral Large First On Azure
The AI industry is undergoing a significant transformation with growing interest in more efficient and cost-effective models, emblematic of a broader trend in technological advancement. In the vanguard is Mistral AI, an innovator and trailblazer. Their commitment to fostering the open-source community and achieving exceptional performance aligns harmoniously with Microsoft’s commitment to develop trustworthy, scalable,…
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When Cloud AI Lands You In Court
It’s clear that AI, including generative AI, will be tested in the courts. Cloud and AI architects must practice defensive design and governance to stay out of trouble. In a recent legal ruling against Air Canada in a small claims court, the airline lost because its AI-powered chatbot provided incorrect information about bereavement fares. The…
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New IBM Study Data Reveals 74% Of Energy & Utility Companies Surveyed Embracing AI
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today, at Distributech 2024, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled additional findings from its global study findings that show that 74% of Energy & Utility companies surveyed have implemented or are exploring using AI in their operations. Within the sector, among surveyed IT Professionals, 33% are focusing AI projects on HR/Talent Acquisition and 27% are focused…
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IBM Report: Identity Comes Under Attack, Straining Enterprises’ Recovery Time From Breaches
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide. According to IBM X-Force, IBM Consulting’s offensive and defensive security services arm, in 2023, cybercriminals saw more opportunities to “log in” versus hack into corporate…
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Magika: AI Powered Fast And Efficient File Type Identification
For 60 years, the Munich Security Conference has brought together world leaders, businesses, experts and civil society for frank discussions about strengthening and safeguarding democracies and the international world order. Amid mounting geopolitical challenges, important elections around the world, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, these conversations are more urgent than ever. And the new role…
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Technology Industry To Combat Deceptive Use Of AI In 2024 Elections
20 leading technology companies including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok, and X pledge to work together to detect and counter harmful AI content MUNICH – February 16, 2024 – Today at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), leading technology companies pledged to help prevent deceptive AI content from interfering with this year’s global elections…
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Sora
Creating video from text Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. All videos on this page were generated directly by Sora without modification. We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that…
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3 Killer Apps For Cloud-Based Generative AI
Natural language generation, recommendation systems, and anomaly detection are good opportunities to create strong business value with genAI. I’ve been working with artificial intelligence systems since the 1980s. Back then, AI was considered a revolution in leveraging computer systems to achieve unheard-of capabilities. Things are much the same today with generative AI (genAI). But to…
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Recorded Future Launches Enterprise AI For Intelligence
Built on Recorded Future’s Intelligence Graph – the World’s Largest Intelligence Holdings – Enterprise AI Augments Humans and Defends Democracy Against Converging Threats BOSTON — February 14, 2024 — Recorded Future, the world’s largest intelligence company, today announced that Recorded Future AI is emerging out of beta to augment humans and defend democracy against converging global…
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Watch Our New Pixel Ad Ahead Of The Big Game
As one of the over a billion people in the world with a disability, I’ve experienced how AI is revolutionizing the way we go through the world — from making captions more widely available across content to helping people who are blind or have low vision use their phones to identify information about their surroundings. Through my work…
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Delivering Copilot For Everyone
As we approach Super Bowl weekend, we’re thrilled to be a part of the festivities for the first time in four years. This year, we’re proud to celebrate the transformative power of AI and Microsoft Copilot, showcasing peoples’ “watch me” moments with Copilot enabling people to do things previously unattainable. With a simple sentence or…
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Harmonizing AI-Enhanced Physical And Cloud Operations
Azure’s adaptive cloud approach builds on our work with Azure Arc to make it easier for customers to accelerate their adoption of cloud innovation throughout their entire IT estate. In my last blog, I talked about how our adaptive cloud approach unifies siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems with a collaborative innovation and operations platform—enhanced by AI—across…
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MongoDB Announces Founding Membership In The U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium
New U.S. government AI safety institute brings together leaders from industry, government, academia, and non-profit organizations to develop standards for the responsible use of artificial intelligence NEW YORK—Feb. 8, 2024—MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that it is a founding member of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which was established by the…
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New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express To Offer Cost Savings And Client Value Through A Cyber Resilient Hybrid Cloud And AI Platform
– Newest IBM LinuxONE system is engineered to deliver cybersecurity, resiliency, scalability and AI inferencing for hybrid cloud environments. – Moving Linux workloads from a compared x86 system to an IBM LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on the total cost of ownership over 5 years.(1) ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today…
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The Growth Of IBM Storage Ceph – The Ideal Foundation For A Modern Data Lakehouse
It’s been one year since IBM integrated Red Hat storage product roadmaps and teams into IBM Storage. In that time, organizations have been faced with unprecedented data challenges to scale AI due to the rapid growth of data in more locations and formats, but with poorer quality. Helping clients combat this problem has meant modernizing…
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Mastering AI Quality For Successful Adoption Of AI In Manufacturing
Managing AI quality enables industrial organizations to increase their productivity and sustainability. Image: iStockphoto. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the cornerstone of a reimagined manufacturing landscape, with 89% of executives across industries regarding AI as essential to achieve their growth objectives and aiming to implement it in their operations. Yet, concerns about security, data protection, regulatory…
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How AI In Healthcare Could Bridge A Significant Capacity Gap
Our populations’ future health will dramatically change in high-, middle- and low-income countries. Impacts on healthcare from a rapidly changing climate, declining quality of air and water, conflicts and population displacement will coincide with longer-running trends in ageing populations and a shift in the burden of disease from infectious diseases to non-communicable, mostly chronic diseases in…
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Taylor Swift Deepfakes Highlight Tech Platforms’ Losing Battle Against AI-Generated Fake Porn
Over the past day, explicit deepfakes depicting pop star Taylor Swift naked have gone viral across social media, accruing tens of millions of views and highlighting the alarming pace at which AI-generated fake pornography is proliferating online. The images first gained traction Wednesday when a now-suspended verified account on Twitter successor X posted an array…
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Reasoning And Reliability In AI
PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage. Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI LabMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/reasoning-and-reliability-in-ai-0118) In order for natural language to be an effective form of communication, the parties involved need to be able to understand words and their context, assume that the content is largely shared in…
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Farmers In India Are Using AI For Agriculture – Here’s How They Could Inspire The World
Krishna, a smallholding farmer, diligently cultivates his half-hectare plot in Telangana, India, every day. For this, he earns $120 per month—just enough to meet his family’s basic needs. But Krishna must also contend with unpredictable monsoons, frequent droughts, pest infestations, and diminishing yields. He must battle the impacts of changing climate patterns and soil health.…
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AWS Is Readying LLM-Based Debugger For Databases To Take On OpenAI
AWS researchers have published a paper that pitches a proprietary LLM-based debugger, dubbed Panda, against OpenAI’s GPT-4. AWS researchers are working on developing a large language model-based debugger for databases in an effort to help enterprises solve performance issues in such systems. Dubbed Panda, the new debugging framework has been designed to work in a manner…
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AI Can Turbocharge Profits. But It Shouldn’t Be At The Expense Of Ethics
As the adoption of generative AI rapidly expands across all corners of society, businesses of all kinds are poised to become quicker, more creative and more clever. We’re seeing this everywhere: Casinos use AI to better predict customers’ gambling habits and lure them with irresistible promotions. AI guides product designers as they choose better and…