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How CIOs can scale gen AI | McKinsey
The honeymoon phase of generative AI (gen AI) is over. As most organizations are learning, it is relatively easy to build gee-whiz gen AI pilots, but turning them into at-scale capabilities is another story. The difficulty in making that leap goes a long way to...
3 Reasons Why The Promised Gains From A.I. Are Still Faraway
A.I. Hype Is Generating Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Investment. Yet A.I. Is Bad At Math, Hobbled by Inconsistent Data, And Crippled by Siloed Expertise. AI, we are told, is the future. It will transform every aspect of human life, fully justifying the hundreds...
The quantified organization: Grail or Big Brother?
Thanks to the growing mass of data they capture, businesses are in a position to understand how their employees are doing and how they function, and to imp Thanks to the growing mass of data they capture, businesses are in a position to understand how their employees...
Cutting-Edge Infrastructure Best Practices for Enterprise AI Data Pipelines
The ability to harness, process, and leverage vast amounts of data sets leading organizations apart in today's data-driven landscape. To stay ahead, The ability to harness, process, and leverage vast amounts of data sets leading organizations apart in today’s...
“AI Revolutionizes Transportation: Enhancing Efficiency, Safety, and Sustainability Across the Globe | DC Velocity
AI is transforming transportation by improving efficiency, enhancing safety, and promoting sustainability, reshaping how goods and people move globally. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the transportation sector by enhancing efficiency, safety, and user...
Generative AI in organizations – Capgemini
Data and AIGenerative AI in organizationsHarnessing the value of generative AI: Top use cases across industriesDownload the report5 MB pdfDownload the People are excited about generative AI, eager to apply it in many areas of work and life, highlighting a growing...
Continental develops mobile robot software for logistics, ag with AWS – The Robot Report
Continental is using AWS cloud services to accelerate innovation in its mobile robot software stack for new markets such as agriculture. Continental Mobile Robots, a Frankfurt am Main, Germany-based division of Continental’s Automotive Group Sector, has developed...
Enterprises start to harvest AI-driven exponential efficiency efforts | Constellation Research Inc.
Enterprises are beginning to leverage AI and widen their profit moats just as some companies are seeing customers wobble. The efficiency gains are beginning to highlight how digital transformation and AI strategies are becoming self-funding, keeping expenses below the...
Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks (KAN) Are About To Change The AI World Forever | by Manushi Mukhi | Accredian | Medium
In AI, the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) stands as the bedrock, its neural architecture shaping the landscape of countless applications. Yet, Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks (KAN) seek to disrupt this foundation by reimagining the very essence of the neuron’s working in...
Internet of Agents (IoA): A Novel Artificial Intelligence AI Framework for Agent Communication and Collaboration Inspired by the Internet – MarkTechPost
Internet of Agents (IoA): A Novel Artificial Intelligence AI Framework for Agent Communication and Collaboration Inspired by the Internet The rapid advancement of LLMs has enabled the creation of highly capable autonomous agents. However, multi-agent frameworks need...
Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model | NVIDIA Blog
Mistral AI and NVIDIA today released a new state-of-the-art language model, Mistral NeMo 12B, that developers can easily customize and deploy for enterprise applications supporting chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding and summarization. By combining Mistral AI’s...
Capgemini digs into the real reasons that gen AI proof of concepts rarely take off | VentureBeat
Though companies are bullish on gen AI, most proof of concepts fizzle out. At VB Transform 2024, Capgemini reveals how to change that fate. According to recent Capegemini research, the vast majority of people in every sector they’ve surveyed have said they have a...
What can AI do for agriculture?
Farmers are tapping into artificial Intelligence to grow more with fewer resources, but adoption could be slow. By now, you’re likely aware of the buzz surrounding generative artificial intelligence. Many consumers have incorporated this technology into their daily...
Knowledge Graphs improve Gen AI – Capgemini
Knowledge Graphs improve Gen AIValidating results builds trust for organizationsJoakim Nilsson18th July 2024 FacebookTwitterLinkedin Generative AI can In Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer called Deep Thought is asked for the answer...
Why consciousness may have evolved to benefit society rather than individuals
Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy – with several rival theories in contention. Go to...
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Atlantic
The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work. Go to Source
Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner
Over the last 12 months, 63% of HR leaders report an increase in expectations for employees to return to the office. Many organizations who have encouraged onsite work, but see low compliance, are resorting to RTO mandates. But 74% of HR leaders cite these mandates as...
How Capital One is gaining momentum with enterprise AI | VentureBeat
Staying focused on a customer-driven vision while ensuring the latest AI and ML technologies contribute to greater compliance is key. “We always start with our obsession with the end customer and how we can use AI to solve their problem; that is the unifying starting...
GenAI may be the new UI for enterprise software | Constellation Research Inc.
Enterprise software could be disrupted as category windows become collateral damage to generative AI. The scenario: Today's go-to systems are relegated to plumbing as generative AI becomes the de facto user interface that democratizes data, insights, analytics and...
Zoom launches Workflow Automation to speed up enterprise work
Whilst Zoom’s legacy is in online video conferencing, with the launch of Workplace - and now Workflow Automation - it is increasingly entering new territory. Zoom has this week announced the launch of Workflow Automation in beta, a new no-code workflow builder that...
Rethinking productivity measurement in the age of AI – SiliconANGLE
Rethinking productivity measurement in the age of AI - SiliconANGLE Executives are laser-focused on how generative artificial intelligence can have an impact on employee output. As the chief strategy officer for a DevSecOps software company, GitLab, I spend a lot of...
Salesforce debuts Einstein Service Agent, a new AI Agent for customer self-service
Salesforce is growing its Einstein platform with an autonomous AI agent technology that will be used initially to support customer self-service. Salesforce is jumping into the AI agent world with a new service that builds on the company’s Einstein platform for AI. The...
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