Stephen Hawking famously said that "success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization, but unless we learn how to prepare for and avoid the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization." AI in the form of LLMs (Large Langue Models) has exploded. Based on ... Full article
According to a 2023 business survey, 62 percent of enterprises have fully implemented artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity or are exploring additional uses for the technology. With advancements in AI technologies, however, come more ways for sensitive information to be misused. Globally, organizations are leveraging AI and implementing automated security measures into their infrastructure to reduce vulnerabilities. As AI ... Full article
AMD has released findings from a new survey of global IT leaders suggesting some are finding it challenging to keep up during the recent AI boom: Close to half (46%) of respondents say their organizations are not ready to implement AI, and just 19% say they will prioritize AI within the next year. The report is based on an ... Full article
The launch of ChatGPT and similar generative AI technologies is reshaping the skills required in the workplace, according to a new report from LinkedIn. “The Future of Work Report: AI at Work” found the pace at which LinkedIn members added AI skills to their profile has nearly doubled since ChatGPT’s debut in November 2022, rising from 7.7% (May–November 2022) to 13% ... Full article
The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in AI ‘spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources,’ and rightly so. GPUs are the cornerstone of AI infrastructure and as much budget as possible should ... Full article
VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says the world is currently “hysterically freaking out” about artificial intelligence, and he recently wrote a 7,000-word essay to address these fears. During the Stratechery podcast, Andreessen told host Ben Thompson that he felt compelled to write “Why AI Will Save the World” because the world had gone hysterical over A.I. and needed to be ... Full article
A new report from IDC predicts the global market value of artificial intelligence solutions will reach close to $450 billion in 2022 and will continue to grow over the next five years. According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker, worldwide revenues for AI software, hardware, and services totaled $383.3 billion in 2021 for an increase of 20.7% over ... Full article
As big data proliferates in every aspect of business today, IT teams face a daunting task in processing the sheer volume and complexity of IT operations output. In response, the enterprise appetite for AIOps is growing. AIOps uses big data and machine learning to predict, identify, diagnose and resolve IT events at a scale and speed humans just cannot ... Full article
AI is becoming more ubiquitous, from everyday voice assistants and online shopping to healthcare and workplace management — but can we trust it? That question was the headline of a panel called “Can We Trust AI?” during the Discover Experiential AI event at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI (EAI) this week. The panel was moderated by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, a professor ... Full article
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European Commission (EC) and from the UK government this week. The acquisition, which was announced in October of 2020, already received needed reviews and approvals from a wide swath of other ... Full article
Tesla first made a cryptic reference to it's project Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing, in 2019. Later, in the summer of 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “Tesla is developing a training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data. It’s a beast! … A truly useful exaflop at de ... Full article
As the uses of AI technologies expand within enterprises and governments daily, concerns about the intrusion of AI into the everyday lives of people continue to grow, causing deep reflection on how AI bias should be identified and prevented. To help address these growing concerns for enterprise AI users, software industry trade group, BSA The Software Alliance, has released ... Full article
Nvidia may have announced its blockbuster $40 billion acquisition plans for chip IP vendor Arm back in September 2020, but now the incoming CEO of chip vendor Qualcomm is busy touting an alternative plan for Arm’s future, according to a June 13 report from The (London) Telegraph. Instead of proceeding with the potential Nvidia acquisition, Cristiano Amon, who is ... Full article
OpenAI, the research company behind the GPT-3 natural language generator, has unveiled a $100 million AI startup fund that will provide investment money to startups that are driving intriguing AI technologies. The fund, which was announced May 26 (Wednesday) at the Microsoft Build virtual developers conference, includes investment money from Microsoft, which already has a deep relationship with OpenAI, ... Full article
If you are an AI technology leader and you often don't have answers on how AI makes decisions within your company's operations, you are not alone. Nearly two-thirds of C-level AI leaders can’t explain how specific AI model decisions or predictions are made, according to a new survey on AI ethics by credit report and analytics software vendor, FICO, ... Full article
Google Cloud has been busy over the last few years building a wide range of AI and machine learning tools for developers to help them find real-world uses for AI and ML within their enterprises. But as the tools proliferated, the AI and ML workflows, modeling, experimentation and more began getting complicated. Something was needed to make sense of ... Full article
With cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. In the latest moves, Toyota has signed on ZF and Mobileye to develop advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for several of its vehicle platforms in the next few years, while General ... Full article
As Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to build out and test its beta Starlink high-speed, satellite-based internet services, Google Cloud has signed up as a partner to host ground stations within its data centers to link up with the fledgling satellite network. The deal will highlight some of the expertise of both companies – from SpaceX’s successes in rockets and ... Full article
Six months after unveiling its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing, Mythic AI has just received a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring the chips to mass production and to develop its next hardware and software products. The new investment round, which was led by led by BlackRock and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), ... Full article
With hundreds of millions of pieces of mail to process and deliver daily, the U.S. Postal Service is always looking for ways to streamline its technology systems to improve its services. Since the early 2000s, those technologies have included bringing in HPC and machine learning, which have continued to be added incrementally over the years to solve new problems ... Full article