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 economy.
Syed Alam, Accenture‘s semiconductor lead, was one of many people at the show talking about the impact of AI on a…
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…
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 called “the first-ever consortium dedicated to AI safety.”
The coalition includes more than 200 member companies and…
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…
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 scientists reduce potential security risks. While ART on HuggingFace is new, the overall effort is not. ART was started back in 2018…
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…
Stability AI, the company known for its growing array of open source AI models for content creation and coding, today announced an upgrade for its image-to-video latent diffusion model, Stable Video Diffusion (SVD).
Dubbed SVD 1.1, the updated model is a fine-tuned version…
Generative AI offers real ROI — but also consumes a huge amount of compute and resources. In this VB Spotlight event, leaders from NVIDIA and Supermicro share how to identify critical use cases and the build the AI-ready platform that’s crucial for success.
Generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually across industries. But it’s also resource-hungry…
