COBOL is not a language often mentioned as a leading programming development one, at least not in 2023. That wasn’t always the case. COBOL, which debuted in 1959, was a leading language in the earliest era of computing and there are still billions of lines of COBOL code running production applications today.
Today, IBM announced a new initiative that uses the power of generative AI large…
YouTube, the video-sharing behemoth, has revealed a landmark initiative that will see it work hand-in-hand with the music industry to navigate the uncharted waters of artificial intelligence (AI) in music creation and distribution.
The Alphabet-owned company is launching the…
How customer engagement will evolve along with generative AI
August 22, 2023
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Generative AI is reshaping customer and prospect engagement, elevating experiences at scale and driving growth. Dive into the transformative potential of genAI, from groundbreaking use cases across industries to strategies you can implement today, in…
Capitalizing on malware-free tradecraft to launch undetectable breaches, attackers rely on legitimate system tools and living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques to breach endpoints undetected. Malware-free attacks trade on the trust of legitimate tools, rarely generating a unique signature and relying on fileless execution.
Across all malicious activity tracked by CrowdStrike and reported in their…
Generative AI datasets could face a reckoning | The AI Beat
August 22, 2023
Over the weekend, a bombshell story from The Atlantic found that Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Michael Pollan are among thousands of authors whose copyrighted works were used to train Meta’s generative AI model, LLaMA, as well as other large language models, using a…
How businesses can measure the success of AI applications
August 21, 2023
Artificial intelligence — generative AI, in particular — is the talk of the town. Applications like ChatGPT and LaMDA have sent shockwaves across industries, with the potential to revolutionize the way we work and interact with technology.
One fundamental characteristic…
AI in OT: Opportunities and risks you need to know
August 21, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI apps such as ChatGPT and Bard, have dominated the news cycle since they became widely available starting in November 2022. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is often used to generate text trained on large volumes of text data.
Undoubtedly impressive, gen AI has composed new songs, created images and drafted emails (and much more), all…
How businesses can ensure a prolonged AI summer
August 20, 2023
The excitement around generative AI is a textbook example demonstrating the top of a technology hype cycle. The newest gauge on emerging technologies from Gartner shows gen AI near the “peak of inflated expectations.”
For example, McKinsey has stated that the…
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Join us for an evening of engaging conversations and networking, illuminating the vibrant and dynamic world of AI…
One of the main barriers to putting large language models (LLMs) to use in practical applications is their unpredictability, lack of reasoning and uninterpretability. Without being able to address these challenges, LLMs will not be trustworthy tools in critical settings.
In a recent paper, cognitive scientist Gary Marcus and AI pioneer Douglas Lenat delve into these challenges, which they…
