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The Coming Rise of the Zero-Humans Company | Wayne Chang
The race is on to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), but a nearer-term disruption is on the horizon: artificial general business intelligence (AGBI), enabling the rise of the zero-humans company. Go to Source
Microsoft Copilot Scenario Library downloads – Microsoft Adoption
Becoming AI powered means transforming scenarios across your organization. Use our guidance by department and individual scenario to get inspired, empower your workforce and realize value from your Copilot investment. Select the relevant documents to download to...
Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI? A Brief History of Automatons That Were Actually People | Scientific American
If you’ve ever asked a chatbot a question and received nonsensical gibberish in reply, you already know that “artificial intelligence” isn’t always very intelligent. And sometimes it isn’t all that artificial either. That’s one of the lessons from Amazon’s recent...
Beyond Chatbots: Why Businesses Need AI Agents To Stay Competitive
Beyond Chatbots: The Rise of Autonomous Agents While chatbots have become a familiar face in customer service, a new generation of AI is poised to transform businesses. So you have utilized chatbots for various use cases in your company – the next wave of Artificial...
The Future of ML Development Services: Trends and Predictions
Enter the world of ML development services, a land where everything is in constant change due to technological advancements and data-driven innovation solutions In recent years, ML has become a groundbreaking technology that revolutionized various sectors such as...
These are the best flexible jobs with good salaries in America right now. Most aren’t in tech
Leaders discuss best practices for upskilling and reskilling employees to prepare their teams for artificial intelligence work. From hosting an AI hackathon to conducting an AI mastery series, these 10 executives and leaders showcase real-world examples you can use to...
Jon Stewart Is Right About the Dangers of AI | TIME
Labor displacement is a major concern about AI that the world needs to talk seriously about. I run an AI company based in Silicon Valley focused on solving climate change, and I am a former policymaker for the government of India. At the World Economic Forum Davos...
How AI will shape the future of the legal industry
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced a £6.4 million grant for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to invest in AI-technology skills-based training. This development is the latest in a string of AI funding initiatives across the...
How RPA vendors aim to remain relevant in a world of AI agents | TechCrunch
RPA threatens to be replaced by AI agents. But it doesn't have to be this way, leaders in the RPA industry say. What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universally accepted...
Enterprises Must Now Cultivate a Capable and Diverse AI Model Garden | Constellation Research Inc.
Developing a robust AI model portfolio—often visualized these days as a diverse 'garden' of different AI models, large and small—requires capability development, enthusiastic experimentation, thoughtful planning and strategic foresight. AI models not only have to...
Looking for AI use-cases — Benedict Evans
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new...
‘AI Platforms will Control What Everybody Sees,’ Says Meta’s AI Chief Yann LeCun
“Eventually all our interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants. This means that AI assistants will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture; they will constitute a shared infrastructure like the internet is today,” said...
Taking AI to the next level in manufacturing | MIT Technology Review
Few technological advances have generated as much excitement as AI. In particular, generative AI seems to have taken business discourse to a fever pitch. Many manufacturing leaders express optimism: Research conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights found ambitions...
‘Human intelligence’ – by Helen Beetham
In the guise of starting from something self-evident, the project of ‘artificial intelligence’ in fact serves to define what ‘intelligence’ is and how to value it, and therefore how diverse people should be valued too. Educators have good reason to be wary of the...
How much of a finance professional’s work will be done by AI and automation? | AccountingWEB
There is no shortage of people telling us that artificial intelligence will change the working world forever. There is no shortage of people telling us that artificial intelligence will change the working world forever. But for all the talk about the profound...
The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework | Sequoia Capital
Finding product-market fit is the central quest of every early-stage startup. As we have seen over years of partnering with companies before they reached PMF, there are many ways of thinking about and approaching this quest. We walk founders through the following...
How AI Adoption Transforms Your Organizational Culture – Betterworks
Find out how Kimberley Basnight and Bennett Price use AI adoption as an opportunity to build organizational cultures that are adaptable, resilient, and open to change. As AI redefines the horizons of work as we know it, the real revolution is unfolding in a much more...
Data-Defined Software Development: Embracing The Future
In an era defined by data, the world of software development is experiencing a profound transformation. In an era defined by data, the world of software development is experiencing a profound transformation. The concept of data-defined software (DDS) represents a...
Team Taxonomies for digital, data and technology organisations – Emily Webber
I have been working with digital, data, and technology organisations for a long time, many of which are in UK government departments. One thing that I have seen people get tripped up on is how they describe teams. Ambiguity about what a team is can create tensions,...
ISO GQL: A Defining Moment in the History of Database Innovation – Graph Database & Analytics
Last Friday, ISO published a new database query language: ISO GQL. It’s a peer language to SQL and the first new ISO database language since 1987 — when the first version of SQL was released. This is a really big deal. The GQL standard is for and about graphs. Graphs...
Open Platform For Enterprise AI
Efficiently integrate secure, performant, and cost-effective Generative AI workflows into business value. The OPEA platform includes: Detailed framework of composable building blocks for state-of-the-art generative AI systems including LLMs, data stores, and prompt...
How Spatial Computing Might Impact HR Departments
In the HR context, the potential of spatial computing is massive. When Apple Vision Pro finally launched in February 2024, the tech giant lauded it as the beginning of something new. "The era of spatial computing has arrived," Apple CEO Tim Cook said, a...
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