AI & Robotics

Today at Apple, Inc.’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2024) at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, the company announced its most significant generative AI effort yet: Apple Intelligence, a much-rumored new service combining multiple AI models that aims to provide personalized, private, and secure capabilities across Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices. “It’s aware of your…

Recent headlines, such as an AI suggesting people should eat rocks or the creation of ‘Miss AI,’ the first beauty contest with AI-generated contestants, have reignited debates about the responsible development and deployment of AI. The former is likely a flaw to be resolved, while the latter reveals human nature’s flaws in valuing a specific beauty standard. In a time of repeated warnings of…

Back in 2019, which now seems like an age ago thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and various other global events, Adobe launched the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), a real-time customer experience management (CXM) solution designed for enterprises that wanted to manage and use massive amounts of customer data in real time when creating marketing, outreach, promotional and ad campaigns — especially…

A new whitepaper released last week by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) quantifies the exponential growth potential of AI power requirements. The 35-page report titled, “Powering Intelligence: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Energy Consumption,” projects total data center power consumption by U.S. data centers alone could more than double to 166% by 2030.