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What Just Broke?: Generative AI and the Extinction of Ideas
Should generative AI be trained to compete with all creatives, such as jazz musicians in the streets of New Orleans? Credit: Joao-Pierre S. Ruth Last week, I attended a dinner meeting with some of Tata Consultancy Service’s futurists to talk about digital twins and AI across such sectors as agriculture, health care, ending animal testing, […]
CES 2023 Explored Tricky Path Between Policy and Innovation
Between jokes and worries about technology — from data privacy to ChatGPT — there is a rising call for the rules of the land to be made clearer. Last week, that inevitably brought policymakers, including a delegation of US senators, to tech tradeshow CES 2023. Industry concerns were vented about regulation strategies and politicians shared […]
AI Governance: Risks, Regulations and Trends for Enterprises
Enterprises are now strongly on the path to operationalizing AI within their organizations, with 76% on the AI adoption curve, according to Forrester Research. But getting it operationalized is just one step of the process. There are any number of important tasks that go along with getting quality results from your artificial intelligence in the […]
Building a Chatbot That Humans Will Actually Like
Pity the poor chatbots. People love to hate them. Angry and irritated users have been known to say things to a chatbot that, in the real world, would likely result in a lawsuit or a punch in the nose. Badly designed chatbots are irritating. “We all have high expectations for human interaction, and we all […]
IBM’s Krishnan Talks Finding the Right Balance for AI Governance
Increased regulatory oversight and the growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence have made the technology an escalating concern for industry and the masses. Questions about governance of AI took center stage last week at The AI Summit New York. During the conference, Priya Krishnan, director of product management with IBM Data and AI, addressed ways to […]
Salesforce’s Benioff Talks Importance of Data Intelligence
Marc Benioff, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, talked up the importance of bringing data together in one platform as part of his company’s strategy. He spoke last week on this during his keynote at the company’s World Tour NYC event. Benioff naturally highlighted Salesforce’s progress and products but he also discussed the economy’s gyrations and […]
Data Strategy: Synthetic Data and Other Tech for AI's Next Phase
You’ve finally gotten your enterprise’s machine learning and artificial intelligence into production and your top executives are expecting results. Just one question: Do you have enough quality data to train those algorithms? Now that enterprises are plowing ahead with these initiatives, sourcing data for the always-hungry algorithms will be a constant item on the to-do […]
DeveloperWeek Enterprise: Sorting Out Big Data to Empower AI
At last week’s DeveloperWeek Enterprise 2022 conference, Victor Shilo, CTO of EastBanc Technologies, gave a keynote that aimed to clear up some of the confusion that can come with trying to make soup out of huge datasets. “In many cases, big data is a big data swamp,” he said in his presentation, “The Big Data […]
CIOs Face IT Spending Squeeze, Security Woes, Higher Expectations in 2023
CIOs are headed into a challenging year in 2023 as top executives expect a faster time to value on projects while IT spending is squeezed by inflation. At the same time, CIOs remained very focused on cybersecurity as the threat landscape continues to worsen. Those were among some of the highlights of the Gartner IT […]