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24 Oct

Listening skills bring human-like touch to robots

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Imagine sitting in a dark movie theater wondering just how much soda is left in your oversized cup. Rather than prying off the cap and looking, you pick up and shake the cup a bit to hear how much ice is inside rattling around, giving you a decent indication of if you'll need to get a free refill. Setting the drink back down, you wonder absent-mindedly if the armrest is made of real wood. After giving it a few taps and hearing a hollow echo however, you decide it must be made from plastic. This ability to interpret the world…

23 Oct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Control Your Computer

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Anthropic has unveiled a major update to its Claude AI models, including the new “Computer Use” feature. Developers can direct the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet to navigate desktop apps, move cursors, click buttons, and type text — essentially imitating a person working at their PC. “Instead of making specific tools to help Claude complete individual tasks, we’re teaching it general computer skills—allowing it to use a wide range of standard tools and software programs designed for people,” the company wrote in a blog post. The Computer Use API can be integrated to translate text prompts into computer commands, with Anthropic…

23 Oct

How Enterprise IT Can Achieve Water Sustainability Despite the Demands of AI | TechRepublic

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Most of the discussion about data center sustainability is focused on the type of power and how much of it is consumed. But excessive water usage is becoming an increasingly important and controversial aspect of data center operations. Many data centers use a lot of water in cooling and humidification. Hyperscalers, in particular, are under severe pressure from environmental groups due to their heavy usage of valuable water resources and the fact that their water consumption has expanded sharply due to the needs of AI. Drew Robb, writing for TechRepublic Premium, explains the many issues of water usage, its role…

23 Oct

BDO: Public Boards Seek a Balance Between Innovation and Risk

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Public boards are bullish on artificial intelligence and generative AI as new key levers for growth and are taking measures to seize opportunities while mitigating mounting risks, a new survey finds. Directors realize “the full potential of technology deployment requires enhanced risk management, security, and compliance measures to safeguard their organizations and stakeholders,” according to the 2024 BDO Board Survey of nearly 250 public company directors. Risk and innovation: a symbiotic relationship At the same time, they are exercising caution, noting that innovation presents both a significant opportunity and risk. Some 17% of directors indicated that “advancing the use of…

23 Oct

Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network

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Artificial intelligence might now be solving advanced math, performing complex reasoning, and even using personal computers, but today’s algorithms could still learn a thing or two from microscopic worms.Liquid AI, a startup spun out of MIT, will today reveal several new AI models based on a novel type of “liquid” neural network that has the potential to be more efficient, less power-hungry, and more transparent than the ones that underpin everything from chatbots to image generators to facial recognition systems.Liquid AI’s new models include one for detecting fraud in financial transactions, another for controlling self-driving cars, and a third for…

23 Oct

Accenture, SAP Leaders on Diversity Problems and Solutions

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Generative AI bias, driven by model training data, remains a large problem for organisations, according to leading experts in data and AI. These experts recommend APAC organisations take proactive measures to engineer around or eliminate bias as they bring generative AI use cases into production. Teresa Tung, senior managing director at Accenture, told TechRepublic generative AI models have been trained primarily on internet data in English, with a strong North American perspective, and were likely to perpetuate viewpoints prevalent on the internet. This creates problems for tech leaders in APAC. “Just from a language perspective, as soon as you’re not…

22 Oct

Google: AI and Platform Engineering Are Transforming DevOps

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More than 75% of working professionals worldwide use AI at least once daily for work, but far fewer trust AI-generated code, according to a survey of 3,000 employees in Google’s 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (DORA). The study, published on Oct. 22, revealed that 76% of professionals use AI to write code, summarize information, explain unfamiliar code, optimize code, and document code. It outlined the many benefits of generative AI adoption, including increased focus, productivity, job satisfaction, and code quality. However, generative AI can also negatively impact software delivery performance, product quality, and the time employees spend on valuable…

22 Oct

E.U. Partners With Venture Capital Firms to Boost Tech Investment

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The European Union has announced that it is teaming up with 71 investors that will co-invest in innovative tech projects in the region. Together, the venture capital funds, public investment banks, foundations, and corporate venture funds represent over €90 billion of assets. The so-called “Trusted Investors Network” was launched on Monday to help finance “high-risk deep tech companies that have a great potential, but often struggle on the European market to find the right investors.” Union investment comes from the European Innovation Council Fund, which was established to support start-ups that have the potential to be scaled in “unicorns” —…

22 Oct

Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

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Professionals across industries are exploring generative AI for various tasks — including creating information security training materials — but will it truly be effective? Brian Callahan, senior lecturer and graduate program director in information technology and web sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Shoshana Sugerman, an undergraduate student in this same program, presented the results of their experiment on this topic at ISC2 Security Congress in Las Vegas in October. Experiment involved creating cyber training using ChatGPT The main question of the experiment was “How can we train security professionals to administer better prompts for an AI to create realistic…

22 Oct

Rethinking AI: Companies Can Become More Sensitive, Resilient

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Australian organisations and their IT teams may be “missing the point” of artificial intelligence if they focus solely on using generative AI to boost productivity and accelerate existing plans, according to a leading expert in the technology. Martin D. Adams, an ethical AI entrepreneur and business advisor, told audiences at Sydney’s SXSW Festival in October that some AI applications touted by consulting firms like McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Deloitte could actually be risky for organisations and miss the true value of AI. “Their view as I understand it is to help push the idea of AI as helping us…