AppLovin today released its second yearly report on Performance-Driven Ad Trends, in which it illuminates some of the most successful ad strategies and trends in 2023. According to the report, generative AI shows promise as a creative tool, while effective ad trends include genre-bending in mobile games, creative metaplay and gamification (even for products that aren’t video games).
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Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age
February 12, 2024
If you were hoping that the world would get over AI fever in 2024, you are going to be sadly mistaken. Advancements in hardware and software (everywhere) are opening up the floodgates to dynamic applications of generative AI that suggest that 2023 was the year where we…
Accenture has more than 743,000 people serving up consulting expertise on technology to clients in more than 120 countries. I met with one of them at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, and had a conversation about semiconductor chips, the foundation of our tech…
Will AI improve our understanding of human history, or will it be a tool that will end our history? Right now, there is evidence to support both perspectives.
This week, a major prize was awarded to three computer science students who used AI, specifically machine learning (ML) and neural networks, to successfully read and translate an ancient Roman scroll recovered from Herculaneum, near…
Brilliant Labs Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
February 9, 2024
Brilliant Labs, the developer of AI glasses, has launched Frame, the world’s first glasses featuring an integrated multimodal AI assistant.
This leap in wearable technology is coupled with significant support from AR pioneer and Niantic CEO, John Hanke, whose company made…
White House touts new AI safety consortium: Over 200 leading firms to test and evaluate models
February 9, 2024
One day after appointing a top White House aide as director of the new US AI Safety Institute (USAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Biden Administration announced the creation of the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which it…
Acceldata supercharges data observability with new AI copilot
February 9, 2024
As the demand for generative AI assistants continues to grow, vendors across the data ecosystem are moving to implement them front and center into their products. Big names like Snowflake and Informatica were the first to make a move, and now, Acceldata, the known player in the data observability space, has jumped on the bandwagon with its own AI copilot.
Available to use right away, the copilot…
Google Deepmind proposes ‘self-discover’ framework for LLMs, improves GPT-4 performance
February 8, 2024
In a bid to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), researchers from Google Deepmind and University of Southern California have proposed a new ‘self-discover’ prompting framework.
Published on arXiV and Hugging Face this morning, the approach…
IBM is hoping to advance the state of the art for artificial intelligence (AI) security with an open source project called the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART).
Today, ART is being made available on Hugging Face as a set of tools that will help AI users and data…
Kyndryl teams up with Google Cloud on responsible generative AI
February 8, 2024
Kyndryl unveiled an extended collaboration with Google Cloud to spearhead the development of responsible generative AI solutions across industries.
Since their initial partnership in 2021, Kyndryl and Google Cloud have been at the forefront of transforming global businesses, harnessing Google Cloud’s AI capabilities and trusted infrastructure.
The latest phase of their collaboration will…
