Only 1 in 4 Americans think you need a college degree to get a high-paying job: report

Only 1 in 4 Americans think you need a college degree to get a high-paying job: report

A majority of Americans don't think earning a college degree is a pre-requisite for snagging a high-paying job, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Thursday."Only one-in-four US adults say it's extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree in order to get a well-paying job in today's economy," the center wrote in its report, citing a survey it conducted with 5,203 US adults from November to December 2023.Nearly half of the survey's respondents said having a four-year college degree is less important in getting a high-paying job today than it was 20 years ago. The…
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Fujitsu Chosen For GENIAC Project To Enhance Reliability Of GenAI in Business Applications

Fujitsu Chosen For GENIAC Project To Enhance Reliability Of GenAI in Business Applications

(issaro prakalung/Shutterstock) Fujitsu, one of the leading technology and business solutions providers, has been chosen for the research and development project for the enhanced infrastructures for post-5G information and communication systems. This project is part of the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC) initiative by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).  The goal of the GENIAC project is to enhance Japan’s capabilities to harness the transformative power of GenAI by bringing together the knowledge of stakeholders in Japan and other countries. Fujitsu will be responsible for R&D on GenAI technologies with a focus on combining knowledge graphs with…
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Knowledge Copilots

Knowledge Copilots

Generational features essays on the business of AI and spotlights outstanding AI companies and products. This essay began as a personal side project building knowledge graphs but evolved into an extensive exploration of knowledge copilots, retrieval augmented generation, and user experience. The main takeaway is that for knowledge intensive tasks, use multiquery RAG and thoughtful UX.A knowledge copilot is a user’s thought partner, optimized for retrieving information from a knowledge base, reasoning through context, and synthesizing responses. It is much more than a wrapper around foundation models for generating copy or poems. For instance, a business analyst synthesizing the latest…
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What OpenAI’s deal with News Corp means for journalism (and for you)

What OpenAI’s deal with News Corp means for journalism (and for you)

OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, and News Corp, the international media conglomerate, have signed a deal that will let OpenAI use and learn from News Corp’s content. In practical terms, this means when a user asks ChatGPT a question, the results might be informed by previous reporting in News Corp outlets, including Australian mastheads such as The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. It’s unclear whether the agreement includes only editorial or also opinion content. OpenAI has licensed News Corp content because generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a ravenous beast: it needs data to learn from and generate useful outputs in…
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Datorios enhances data streaming visibility to support more reliable real-time AI systems – SiliconANGLE

Datorios enhances data streaming visibility to support more reliable real-time AI systems – SiliconANGLE

Streaming data observability startup Datorios Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of a new real-time observability platform for the big-data processing framework Apache Flink. With the new platform, companies will benefit from what the startup claims are previously unseen insights relating to streaming data processing. These insights can aid in the creation of new, real-time artificial intelligence systems that can be fully audited to ensure they don’t misbehave, the startup said. Datorios’ founders say they have applied years of experience in the research and development of real-time military intelligence systems to create their new product, with the end goal being…
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Data Machina #249

Data Machina #249

Generative AI Music. In the last year or so, Generative AI Music has improved massively. Although early days, today you can generate some pretty decent, short duration music of all kinds with AI. If you like creating music and AI, here is a list of interesting Generative AI music stuff.Facebook AIR MusicGen. Probably one of the pioneering models in AI quality music generation. MusicGen has sparked a whole universe of MusicGen derivative models of all kinds, and it’s the model behind many musicgen apps. The model is based on a single stage auto-regressive Transformer model, and unlike Google LM, MusicGen…
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Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

Decarbonizing the steel industry is a crucial challenge to overcome if the world is going to meet its climate goals. Steel production contributes around 11% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, making it one of the heaviest polluting industries and a heavy-emitting sector of focus for the First Movers Coalition, an initiative seeking to aggregate demand for near-zero emissions products and services across some of the world’s most polluting industries.The coalition’s mission is to drive investment and accelerate the scaling of the breakthrough technologies required to make these products by demonstrating a credible demand signal for highly decarbonized products.But how can…
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Avatier Identity & Access Management for IBM i Environments

Avatier, a leading provider of identity management solutions, is proud to announce its integration with IBM Power Servers (formerly AS/400) to deliver a groundbreaking identity management experience for IBM i environments. This collaboration brings forth a new era of efficiency, security, and productivity, empowering organizations to streamline operations and optimize performance seamlessly. Avatier is announcing this at POWERUp 2024 Expo in Fort Worth, Texas this week. Avatier’s Identity Management Platform (Avatier Identity Anywhere) is tailored to support IBM i environments, providing comprehensive solutions that simplify operations, enhance security, and boost productivity. The integration offers a range of capabilities, including self-service password reset, user…
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

This post is authored by Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, and Arvind Narayanan. The paper has 25 authors listed here.Last October, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI. It tasked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with preparing a report on the benefits and risks of open foundation models—foundation models with widely available model weights (such as Meta's Llama 2 and Stability's Stable Diffusion). There is widespread disagreement about the impact of openness on society, which the NTIA must sort through. Last week, the NTIA released a list of over…
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