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Alex Woodie

Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.

AI Is Not Sentient Yet. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Useful in the Enterprise

June 21st, 2022 Comments Off on AI Is Not Sentient Yet. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Useful in the Enterprise
Have large language models finally crossed the chasm and become self-aware? A Google researcher recently shocked the world by declaring that Google’s LaMDA has become sentient. Others in the business disagree, saying we’re still far away from artificial general ...

Europe’s AI Act Would Regulate Tech Globally

June 8th, 2022 Comments Off on Europe’s AI Act Would Regulate Tech Globally
The Artificial Intelligence Act was introduced to the European Union in April 2021, and is rapidly progressing through comment periods and rewrites. When it goes into effect, which experts say could occur at the beginning of 2023, it will ...

d-Matrix Gets Funding to Build SRAM ‘Chiplets’ for AI Inference

April 21st, 2022 Comments Off on d-Matrix Gets Funding to Build SRAM ‘Chiplets’ for AI Inference
Hardware startup d-Matrix says the $44 million it raised in a Series A round this week (April 20) will help it continue development of a novel “chiplet” architecture that uses 6 nanometer chip embedded in SRAM memory modules for ...

Run:ai Seeks to Grow AI Virtualization with $75M Round

March 16th, 2022 Comments Off on Run:ai Seeks to Grow AI Virtualization with $75M Round
Run:ai, a provider of an AI virtualization layer that helps optimize GPU instances, yesterday announced a Series C round worth $75 million. The funding figures to help the fast-growing company expand its sales reach and further development the platform. ...

AI Bias Struggles Continue Within Organizations

January 19th, 2022 Comments Off on AI Bias Struggles Continue Within Organizations
Battling AI bias is turning out to be tougher than expected for many business organizations. As companies roll out more machine learning and AI models into production, they are increasing cognizant of the presence of bias in their systems. ...

John Deere Brings Autonomous Driving to Farm Tractors

January 5th, 2022 Comments Off on John Deere Brings Autonomous Driving to Farm Tractors
Fully autonomous self-driving cars are not yet on our nation’s roadways, but later this year a limited number of U.S. farmers will be able to start operating fully-autonomous John Deere tractors in their fields, allowing farmers to get their ...

IBM Using AI to Monitor Petabytes of Network Traffic

December 10th, 2021 Comments Off on IBM Using AI to Monitor Petabytes of Network Traffic
As networks and applications become more complex, so does the process of unravelling performance problems. And as the complexity grows, even finding common errors in an SD-WAN infrastructure can be a challenge in our virtual-everything world. To help solve this ...

AWS re:Invent 2021 Begins As New CEO Adam Selipsky Takes the Reins

November 29th, 2021 Comments Off on AWS re:Invent 2021 Begins As New CEO Adam Selipsky Takes the Reins
As the 2021 AWS re:Invent conference opens this week live and virtually in Las Vegas, Adam Selipsky, who took over the CEO position with the departure of Andy Jassy earlier this year, will begin to make his own mark ...

Landing AI, Andrew Ng’s Computer Vision Startup, Secures $57 Million in Series A Funding

November 9th, 2021 Comments Off on Landing AI, Andrew Ng’s Computer Vision Startup, Secures $57 Million in Series A Funding
Landing AI, the computer vision startup founded by the computer scientist Andrew Ng to use AI to modernize business process in real-world companies, today announced that it has raised $57 million in a Series A round of funding led ...

Deloitte Consulting Report Sees Expanding, Maturing AI Uses Across Enterprises

October 29th, 2021 (1)
As the rapid uptake of AI in the enterprise continues across the board, a new report by Deloitte Consulting has found that there are big differences in the results and workflows in the AI practices being explored by businesses. ...
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