Artificial Intelligence
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First AI + Education Summit Is An International Push For “AI Fluency”
Andrew Whitacre | RAISE InitiativeMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/first-ai-education-summit-0827) This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is no longer enough — a world in which students now need to have AI fluency? The AI + Education…
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Palantir and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Enhanced Analytics and AI Services to Classified Networks for Critical National Security Operations
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announce today a significant advancement in their partnership to bring some of the most sophisticated and secure cloud, AI and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize…
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Transforming the Developer Experience for Every Engineering Role
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, ambitious goals, complex technologies, and shifting priorities can lead to frustrated developer experience. However, the pressure to deliver faster, operate efficiently, and maintain robust security continues to intensify. What if there was a way to break through those barriers? A way to inject new energy into your projects, inspire…
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IBM and The All England Lawn Tennis Club Launch New Generative AI Feature for Personalised Player Stories at Wimbledon
– ‘Catch Me Up’ feature – built and trained using IBM’s Granite LLM, through the watsonx platform – helps fans stay up to date on players across all ladies’ and gentlemen’s singles matches – New IBM survey finds 55% of global tennis fans1 polled think Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a positive impact on sports…
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This AI Was Not Our AI Dream.
So the idea was/is … To generate a ton of good enough and mediocre stuffs and potentially misused scam(-ish) materials at scale(-ish), at disproportionately enormous amount of energy, attention, and intellectual hijack to level the playing field on a lower level playing field … Then … To create of a lot of validation and verification…
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Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus and tool use are generally available on Vertex AI
In April, we made Anthropic’s most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus, available in public preview on Vertex AI Model Garden for customers to start experimenting with. Now, we’re announcing that Claude 3 Opus is generally available on Vertex AI. We’re also excited to announce that tool use is available for all Claude 3 models on Vertex AI,…
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IBM Expands watsonx Portfolio On AWS, Adds watsonx.governance to Help Clients Scale Responsible AI
ARMONK, N.Y., May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During the annual IBM Think conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make the full portfolio of IBM offerings within the watsonx artificial intelligence (AI) and data platform available for use with AWS services. Today’s news will make it easier to scale AI in the enterprise using an open,…
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IBM Study: As CEOs Race Towards Gen AI Adoption, Questions Around Workforce And Culture Persist
– More than half of CEO respondents say they are pushing their organization to adopt gen AI more quickly than some employees are comfortable with – Half of CEOs surveyed say they are hiring for gen AI-related roles that didn’t exist last year, but more than half have not yet assessed the impact of the…
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To Build A Better AI Helper, Start By Modeling The Irrational Behavior Of Humans
A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals. Adam Zewe | MIT NewsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/building-better-ai-helper-starts-with-modeling-irrational-behavior-0419) To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to…
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Sui Teams Up with Google Cloud to Drive Web3 Innovation with Enhanced Security, Scalability and AI Capabilities
Collaboration focuses on tackling key Web3 challenges through data-driven insights, AI-powered development tools and zero knowledge proofs PALO ALTO, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif. [April 30, 2024] – Sui, the Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform created and launched by the core research team responsible for building Facebook’s Libra and Diem projects, is collaborating with Google…
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The Coca-Cola Company And Microsoft Announce Five-year Strategic Partnership To Accelerate Cloud And Generative AI Initiatives
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives. Editor’s note – April 23, 2024 – The quotation from Judson Althoff was updated following initial publication. ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash. — April 23, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. and The Coca-Cola Company on Tuesday announced a five-year strategic partnership to align Coca-Cola’s core…
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Leading Companies Launch Consortium To Address AI’s Impact On The Technology Workforce
News Summary: Leuven, Belgium, April 4, 2024 – Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM (NYSE: IBM) , Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP as well as six advisors today announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to…
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Technology’s Tipping Point: Why Now Is The Time To Earn Trust In AI
Technology companies are in a position to increase trust in AI. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) offers technology companies endless opportunities for progress and growth. However, the tech industry can only seize the moment if it earns the public’s trust in developing and rolling out AI innovations. The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, an…
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Accelerate AI Development With Ubuntu And NVIDIA AI Workbench
Canonical expands its collaboration with NVIDIA through NVIDIA AI Workbench. NVIDIA AI Workbench is supported across workstations, data centres, and cloud deployments. NVIDIA AI Workbench is an easy-to-use toolkit that allows developers to create, test, and customise AI and machine learning models on their PC or workstation and scale them to the data centre or…
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AI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
Like it or not, AI is already playing a role in the 2024 presidential election. kirstypargeter/iStock via Getty Images Eric Smalley, The Conversation It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their parties’ nominees for president in the 2024 election. Barring unforeseen events, the two will be formally nominated…
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NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure
GTC—NVIDIA today announced a new wave of networking switches, the X800 series, designed for massive-scale AI. The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads. They feature software that further accelerates AI, cloud, data processing and HPC applications in every…
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NVIDIA Launches Blackwell-Powered DGX SuperPOD for Generative AI Supercomputing at Trillion-Parameter Scale
Scales to Tens of Thousands of Grace Blackwell Superchips Using Most Advanced NVIDIA Networking, NVIDIA Full-Stack AI Software, and Storage Features up to 576 Blackwell GPUs Connected as One With NVIDIA NVLink NVIDIA System Experts Speed Deployment for Immediate AI Infrastructure GTC—NVIDIA today announced its next-generation AI supercomputer — the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ powered by NVIDIA…
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6 Ways Generative AI Helps Improve Accessibility For All With Azure
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, generative AI stands out, especially in its potential to transform the lives of people with disabilities. The past year has witnessed unparalleled advances in this domain, catalyzing significant breakthroughs in accessibility. The excitement surrounding generative AI is not just about the convenience it offers to the general populace,…
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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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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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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…