The U.S. should consider creating a new regulatory body to oversee the licensing and use of AI “above a certain threshold,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in Congressional testimony on Tuesday (May 16). His recommendation was met with disdain from some, while other AI experts applauded his idea. “OpenAI was founded on the belief that artificial ...Full article
Nvidia has announced a partnership with ServiceNow to develop domain-specific generative AI models for the enterprise. ServiceNow is a SaaS provider focused on IT service management tools. The company is developing custom large language models trained on data specifically for its ServiceNow Platform, a cloud-based workflow automation platform. ServiceNow will use Nvidia’s NeMo foundation models ...Full article
While inflation is down from its high of 9% last June, American companies are still grappling with rising costs. Companies that can raise their prices to balance the ledger are doing so, but others are addressing inflation another way: by boosting employee productivity through conversational AI, or chatbots. According to Moveworks CEO and Co-Founder Bhavin Shah, companies ...Full article
With the recent evolution of ChatGPT and generative AI, the picture of what AI can accomplish is becoming more apparent. As new use cases and innovation accelerates, this is an exciting time for the industry. However, it will take time for these technologies to break into the mainstream market and reach a level of ease ...Full article
Cloud providers are building armies of GPUs to provide more AI firepower. At its annual Google I/O developer conference today, Google announced an AI supercomputer with 26,000 GPUs. The Compute Engine A3 supercomputer is one more proof point that it is throwing more resources in an aggressive counteroffensive in its battle for AI supremacy with ...Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Asanka Abeysinghe WSO2, a provider of digital transformation technology solutions, promoted Asanka ...Full article
A pattern is emerging on how U.S. government wants to boost its AI research. The approach is similar to how the early supercomputing infrastructures were built: engage academia and national labs, then apply the research to solve critical domestic issues. The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Tuesday announced it was awarding $140 million to universities ...Full article
Global funding from venture investors plunged 56% last month compared to April 2022, going from $47.8 billion to about $21 billion this year, according to a Crunchbase analysis released today. However, AI was one of the bright spots for venture capital firms, attracting nearly $3 billion in investments. “How Low Can It Go?” asks Senior ...Full article
The rise of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humans and is on par with the use of nuclear weapons, according to more than a third of AI researchers polled in a recent Stanford study as well as Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “the Godfathers of AI.” Hinton, who shares a 2018 Turing Award ...Full article
Today, AMD reported its financial results for Q1 2023. The headline: revenues ($5.4 billion) are down by 9.2% year-over-year, just barely beating expectations amid turmoil among the economy in general and AMD’s competition. However, the company is also projecting effectively flat revenues of $5.3 billion in Q2 2023 (±$300 million), which elicited disappointment from analysts. ...Full article
A new integration for machine learning is available from Teradata and Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform is now generally available with Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape analytics. “With Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics plus Vertex AI, organizations can move seamlessly from being AI experimenters to AI achievers,” Teradata said in a release. Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s ...Full article
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can translate a person’s brain activity into a continuous stream of text. Called a semantic decoder, the system is a noninvasive method that first involves measuring brain activity using an fMRI scanner, an imaging machine that tracks blood flow ...Full article
Online learning platform Udemy released its Q1 Workplace Learning Index that found ChatGPT is currently the most in-demand workplace skill in the U.S. and globally. The quarterly report highlights skills that are gaining demand among professionals seeking to keep pace with innovation. Udemy analyzes data from its nearly 14,000 global customers to uncover which skills saw the largest increase ...Full article
Intel posted its worst quarterly loss in history on Thursday, but the chipmaker took a bold move to put a positive spin on the grim news. “We delivered solid first-quarter results, representing steady progress with our transformation,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, in a press release. But the results were anything but solid, with double-digit ...Full article
Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’re at the end of the era where it’s going to be these, like, giant, giant models. We’ll make them ...Full article
Early large-language models have proven to be triple-threat AIs – Bing and ChatGPT are entertaining, and can generate artificial love, hate, and even dance. But in the process of testing large-language models, one thing became obvious very quickly: AI models can make up stuff, and conversations can veer off track easily. The risk posed by ...Full article
Cloud providers are stress-testing Intel's confidential computing technology in its Sapphire Rapids chips before putting it in cloud services. Microsoft said it was previewing Intel's Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) technology in its DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series virtual machine offerings, the company announced in a blog entry on Monday. Separately, Google announced it worked with Intel to ...Full article
Esperanto Technologies is working to accelerate software support for its novel, high-performance AI chips. The company has ported a large-language model (LLM) from Meta to its RISC-V-based ET-SoC-1, which includes 1,088 cores. This gives researchers the option to evaluate powerful LLMs on servers that are not based on x86 or Arm architectures. RISC-V is an ...Full article
Are you worried that AI is moving too fast and may have negative consequences? Do you wish there was a national law to regulate it? Well, that’s a club with a fast-growing list of members. Unfortunately, if you reside in the United States, there are no new laws designed to restrict the use of AI, ...Full article
Has artificial intelligence left the realm of fantasy to become a disruptor of reality? Are AI models now learning and thinking on their own, heralding the age of artificial general intelligence? If you caught last weekend’s "60 Minutes," you might think so. In the April 16 episode, CBS host Scott Pelley interviewed Google CEO Sundar ...Full article
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