AI is transformatively intelligent — but it also can be dumb as a stump. Generative AI is a spectacular example of that. While it offers inventive, sometimes ingenious results, its tendency to hallucinate (or confidently produce false information) offers enterprises not only huge opportunity and tremendous potential, but also some work-stoppingly serious challenges.
How can business leaders…
Neko Health, a healthcare technology company co-founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify founder Daniel Ek, announced the successful completion of a €60 million ($65 million) series A funding round. The company aims to revolutionize the health industry through artificial…
Web scraping for massive amounts of data can arguably be described as the secret sauce of generative AI. After all, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard and LLaMA can spit out coherent text because they were trained on massive corpora of data, mostly scraped from the…
The Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social network Bluesky has launched a paid domain service in partnership with Namecheap as a way for users to verify their identity. In a post discussing its plans to make Bluesky sustainable, the team said “users become the product” when a company relies on ads. Since Bluesky set out to “build a protocol where users can own their data,”…
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A new survey conducted by Gartner has revealed that as many as 79% of global corporate strategists see AI, analytics and automation as critical drivers for success over the next two years.
Conducted between October 2022 and April 2023, the poll highlights enterprises’…
OnePlus has unveiled the Nord 3, and it’s a significant upgrade over the 2T — to the point where you might prefer it over comparable rivals. The new mid-range model jumps to a 6.7-inch, 120Hz 2,772 x 1,240 screen, promising a big boost over the 6.4-inch, 90Hz 1080p panel from its predecessor. You’ll also get 80W wired fast charging the company claims can deliver a 60 percent charge…
The nomination of U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Samuel Paparo to be the 33rd chief of naval operations could herald a renaissance in the CNO’s staff office not seen since the 1980s in terms of strategic and operational focus for the fleet.
Since the end of the Cold…
A year ago, the phrase “generative AI” had rarely appeared among the flood of jargon in my inbox.
In July 2022, I had received a few missives from Meta about a multimodal “generative AI” prototype called “Make-A-Scene,” and a handful of emails that referenced…
New York City’s Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) law, believed to be the first in the U.S. aimed at reducing bias in AI-driven recruitment and employment decisions, will now be enforced — after the law went into effect in January and final rules were adopted in April.
Under the AEDT law, it will be unlawful for an employer or employment agency to use artificial intelligence and…
