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 internet. And as the size of today’s LLMs like GPT-4 have ballooned to hundreds of billions of tokens, so has the hunger for…
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…
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Xbox announced the first wave of Game Pass titles for July, and a major (albeit aging) game tops the marquee: Grand Theft Auto V. The game launches…
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’ growing focus on next-gen technologies. Now, companies are looking at advanced systems not only to handle repetitive or basic…
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…
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 “generative AI” text-to-image models like DALL·E and Imagen. But I’m pretty sure the term “generative AI” was not…
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…
A recent study conducted by IT solutions integrator Insight Enterprises and research company The Harris Poll has shed light on the increasing adoption of generative AI amongst businesses while also uncovering concerns about its implementation.
The study indicates that…
While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them.
Wood has long been a standard bearer for machine learning (ML) at AWS and is a fixture at the company’s events. For the past 13 years, he has been one of the leading voices at AWS on AI/ML…
