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29 May

Report: Automakers might be secretly selling your driving data to insurance companies – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIJames Farrell, Report: Automakers might be secretly selling your driving data to insurance companies, SiliconANGLE

Car companies have been selling their customers’ detailed driving behavior data to third-party brokers, possibly affecting the owners’ insurance premiums, according to a New York Times exposé published today that asks serious questions about privacy within the internet of things. Companies such as the General Motors Co., Honda Motor Co. Ltd., the Kia Corp. and more, have been using the data from connected cars to compile a behavioral profile of the driver that might detail how that driver often brakes too fast, often speeds or is prone to aggressive accelerating when the stoplight changes to green. The expose featured a 65-year-old…

29 May

Star Trek’s Holodeck recreated using ChatGPT and video game assets

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIEngineering; Virtual Environment; Robotics Research; Civil Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Virtual Reality; Robotics; Computer Modeling

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leverage the holodeck, an empty room capable of generating 3D environments, to prepare for missions and to entertain themselves, simulating everything from lush jungles to the London of Sherlock Holmes. Deeply immersive and fully interactive, holodeck-created environments are infinitely customizable, using nothing but language: the crew has only to ask the computer to generate an environment, and that space appears in the holodeck. Today, virtual interactive environments are also used to train robots prior to real-world deployment in a process called "Sim2Real." However, virtual interactive…

29 May

MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads, Paul Gillin, SiliconANGLE

Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product line that addresses the data creation and management needs of exabyte-scale infrastructure. MinIO sells a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and permits rapid access to cloud-hosted data. Object storage is a highly scalable method for storing a wide variety of structured and unstructured data types distributed across multiple hardware devices. MinIO says that more than half of Fortune 500 companies use its software-defined object storage. The company said…

29 May

New computer vision tool wins prize for social impact

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIBirds; Bird Flu Research; Animal Learning and Intelligence; Computer Modeling; Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Security and Defense; STEM Education; Education and Employment

A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on two different problems -- how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks -- recently announced an AI framework that can do both. The framework, called DISCount, blends the speed and massive data-crunching power of artificial intelligence with the reliability of human analysis to quickly deliver reliable estimates that can quickly pinpoint and count specific features from very large collections of images. The research, published by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, has been recognized…

29 May

Honing business data with AI real-time analytics – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIAccelerating AI with real-time analytics: Startups on 'the growth curve' weigh in, SiliconANGLE, Victor Dabrinze

A ground-up overhaul is currently underway in the realm of data architectures, and generative artificial is at its heart. Traditional databases no longer suffice; instead, modern applications demand enhanced data structures capable of accommodating AI integration seamlessly. With data volumes rising exponentially, is real-time analytics the key to honing that binary gold to unlock new value points for businesses? “It’s not just that there is a new category of applications, like chatbots and other things, that are being created, but every application now is getting enhanced with AI,” said Venkat Venkataramani (pictured, right), co-founder and chief executive officer of Rockset Inc. “The…

28 May

Celoxis: Project Management Software Is Changing Due to Complexity and New Ways of Working

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Project management systems have become cornerstone tools for organisations in APAC to navigate the fast pace of business changes. Whether it’s a cloud migration or a system implementation, IT teams in particular desperately need PM systems to get things done. APAC-headquartered Celoxis is one project portfolio management software firm that is seeing this change. Head of Customer Success at Celoxis Ratnakar Gore said project management is dealing with challenges that include more complex projects, remote working teams and a shift to agile working. He said project management systems like Celoxis are changing with these developments through measures like integrating team…

28 May

How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIRobotics Research; Detectors; Engineering; Engineering and Construction; Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Neural Interfaces; Hacking

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be efficiently manufactured using 3D printers. "Robotic hardware can involve large forces and torques, so it needs to be made quite safe if it's going to either directly interact with humans or be used in human environments," said project lead Joohyung Kim, a professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University…

28 May

Introducing Dell’s Data Lakehouse platform for enterprises – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAISiliconANGLE, The data lakehouse easy button: Dell and Starburst's vision for seamless data integration, Victor Dabrinze

Today’s businesses generate swathes of enterprise, customer and product data — but the challenge lies in operationalizing the resource. With data loads still growing at the enterprise level, is the data lakehouse the missing piece in the puzzle? “I think people need a better answer — I think that better answer is basically an easy button that works with their data gravity versus against it,” said Vrashank Jain (pictured, left), product manager at Dell Technologies Inc. “Then they need help from an expertise perspective. They need a bench of people who just know exactly what they’re doing. They can come in and help customers stand this up, run and manage…

28 May

Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024

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As business data demands increase, cloud providers and their customers find themselves having to consider the implications of increasing storage costs, security risks and environmental footprint. Such impacts are of particular importance to U.K. organisations, as it is the largest cloud market in Europe. TechRepublic spoke to U.K. cloud experts to identify the top five industry trends emerging from the country’s burgeoning reliance on the fundamental IT infrastructure. These cloud trends are: Premiumisation of cloud packages. Movement towards hybrid multicloud models. Influx of sustainable cloud solutions. Continuous quest for data sovereignty. Focus on cloud security. 1. Premiumisation of cloud packages Adrian…

28 May

Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIEducational Psychology; Numeracy; K-12 Education; Educational Technology; Video Games; Artificial Intelligence; Educational Policy; STEM Education; Education and Employment

A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading news. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and elsewhere. "This is an important step towards equipping young people with the tools they need to navigate in a world full of disinformation. We all need to become better at identifying manipulative strategies -- prebunking, as it is known -- since it is virtually impossible to discern deep fakes, for example, and other AI-generated disinformation with the naked eye," says Thomas Nygren, Professor of Education at Uppsala University. Along with…