During her keynote speech at The Future of AI event in London, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, Michelle Donelan, reaffirmed the UK’s principles-based approach to regulation. With generative AI (GenAI) driving disruption, the government hopes to unleash growth and prosperity across the country. It aims to put the UK at the forefront…
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Google is leaning heavily into AI with its new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, and while some of those AI features might not seem especially exciting, there’s one that stands out that I wish the iPhone would add, too. One of the ways that Google is taking advantage of AI on the Pixel 8…
I wish the iPhone had the Pixel 8’s generative AI wallpapers Read More »
I’m not as worried about the impending AI apocalypse some experts warn about as I am about privacy protections in AI services like ChatGPT and its competitors. I hate the idea of tech giants or third parties possibly abusing large language models (LLM) to collect even more data about users. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…
AI like ChatGPT can guess secrets that you never share, study shows Read More »
Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google…
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I said time and again that Apple needs its own ChatGPT rival running on its hardware, with emphasis on the Vision Pro. A report last week said that iOS 18 will incorporate Apple’s so-called “Apple GPT” generative AI software, prompting me to speculate the Vision Pro should also support the service. Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s…
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In this article, I will delve into whether artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the emergence of tools like generative AI (GenAI), will replace classical software outsourcing as we know it. This discussion aims to provide insight into the potential implications, challenges, and opportunities that lie ahead for the IT outsourcing industry, traditionally being chosen by businesses…
AI vs software outsourcing: An opportunity or a threat? Read More »
The cyber security industry has done so well at detecting suspicious activity that may be a precursor to a ransomware attack, that when cyber criminals succeed in breaking into a victim’s network, they are deploying and executing their lockers quicker than ever before, according to data contained in Secureworks’ annual State of the Threat report.…
Ransomware dwell times now measured in hours, says Secureworks Read More »
Google’s first demo of its ChatGPT-like service Bard cost the company $100 billion in market cap, in a very public display of incompetency from the AI product. The chatbot made an innocent mistake when providing an answer in the conversational tone of ChatGPT. One that real humans caught immediately. That error tanked the stock by…
Google CEO wants Bard tests of up to 4 hours from employees Read More »
If you have been following the debut of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot, then you’ve seen just how much work still needs to be done. The Bing AI chatbot is impressive, but deranged, as it has been threatening, gaslighting, and outright lying to participants who have been accepted into the limited preview. Microsoft responded in a…
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