Key Points:
- While today’s GenAI tech may still be immature, the fast pace of AI innovation means that there will be more sophisticated and secure tools coming soon. ?
- Since
OpenAI
released
ChatGPT
, all the tech giants like
微软
,
谷歌
, and
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
have entered the race. Could any of them overtake OpenAI (the company that made ChatGPT a household name)?
- IT departments -- recognizing that their hardware might not be up to the task of running AI workloads -- are looking for AI chips. Businesses are readying themselves for AI-related legal challenges, privacy compliance snags, and ethical quagmires by seeking specialized services.
- With such opportunity, risk, and volatility at play, how should CIOs invest in GenAI now? We’re devoting this week’s coverage to that question. Just don’t expect any easy answers.
You already know that every day at InformationWeek brings expert insights and advice to help today’s IT leaders identify the best strategies and tools to drive their organizations forward.
That means original reporting from our team of journalists and unique commentary you won’t see anywhere else! But in case you missed them, here are some of our other must-read favorites from this week:
Training GenAI is Tricky
Key Points:
- The production of images and other material via GenAI continues to escalate disbelief in the authenticity of all digital content. Moreover, it can fuel propaganda and smear campaigns.
- When it comes to content control, there seem to be two macro tactics to stop AI from feeding on data: block the bots from websites or “poison” content to confuse AI.
-
David Senecal
, principal product architect, fraud and abuse, with Akamai Technologies, says prior botnet scraping was, naturally, not as advanced as seen today and evolved into more sophisticated tools as skilled engineers were hired to develop the further.
- Still, with GenAI built on the ability to ingest data and code to produce content via prompts, the tug-of-war for access to and control of original content may be pivotal to the technology’s future.
Robots - Start Your Engines!
Key Points:
- When
OpenAI
’s
ChatGPT
burst onto the scene in 2022, the public’s immediate fascination and widespread use pushed business demand for comprehensive generative artificial intelligence adoption.
- News of relatively new companies getting huge investment boosts have become daily updates as companies race to get in on the AI gold rush. It’s hard not to think of the dot com explosion of the 1990s.
- According to Statista, AI’s market size will hit nearly $306 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow up to $739 billion by 2030. While the players may change and consolidate over time, the overall market growth is not expected to slow anytime soon.
- With daily AI headlines fighting for attention, it can be hard to separate noteworthy startups. For businesses, finding the right use cases will be key to unlocking AI’s enterprise potential. Dive into the details in the slideshow above!
Is There a David to the Goliath That is
OpenAI
?
Key Points:
- As a pioneer and market leader in the GenAI space, the company has been a lightning rod for hype, celebration, controversy, and criticism.??
-
微软
is pouring billions into the company, and OpenAI’s valuation has been growing by leaps and bounds. On Feb. 16,
纽约时报
reported that the company completed a deal that values it at $80 billion or more.?
-
谷歌
’s Gemini,
Meta
AI, and
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AI Services: Big tech companies are riding the wave of GenAI demand. They are creating their own models and platforms internally, as well as making investments in other companies.???
- “[In] the medium- to long-term, this is going to be a transformative technology on the scale of the internet or on the scale of mobile. But even with those, you saw that sometimes we could get ahead of our skis in terms of anticipation of the time scales of these technologies,”
David Guarrera
, PhD, principal with EY Americas Technology Consulting, leading generative AI initiatives, tells InformationWeek.??
GenAI is Evolving and Creating Operational Gaps
Key Points:
- Promises of improved efficiency through such automation, freeing up staff to tackle other work -- as well as the potential for some job elimination -- became part of the expectations for this new era of AI.
- GenAI’s impact also set off ripples across ancillary hardware and software sectors that sought to respond to new needs and questions that arose in relation to the technology.
-
Andrew Pery, LL.M, CIPP(C), CIPP(E)
, AI ethics evangelist with document processing and data capture company ABBYY, says policies such as EU regulation can provide some flexibility with conducting voluntary audits of adherence to laws applied to AI. However, real challenges remain in terms of ensuring there is an objective assessment of compliance.
- On the device side, AI’s popularity drives an effort to bring such resources from the cloud space to user’s hands. Incumbents in smartphones such as
高通
,
联发科技
, and
谷歌
have been making moves in this space, he says. Meanwhile in the PC market, Intel and AMD as well as ARM-based processors are pursuing opportunities with AI-chipsets.
Latest Major Tech Layoff Announcements
Original Story by Jessica C. Davis, Updated by Brandon Taylor
Key Points:
- As COVID drove everyone online, tech companies hired like crazy. Now we are hitting the COVID tech bust as tech giants shed jobs by the thousands.
- Updated March 13, 2024 with layoff announcements from
Phantom Auto
, Project
Ronin
,
Fisker
, and
美国艺电公司
.
- Check back regularly for updates to our IT job layoffs tracker.
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- CEO & Founder at
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"Strategies for Maximizing IT Automation"
Although IT automation is quickly becoming more commonplace, IT leaders are still struggling with the best strategy for implementing at scale, as well as wrestling with how new technology trends like generative AI are transforming the automation landscape.
In this event we’ll explore the options available to IT leaders to better understand not only ways to automate, but also how to intelligently plan the strategy to take advantage of new features while avoiding costly overruns and complexities in implementation.
IT automation is a broad, all-encompassing effort that involves networking, security, operations, business processes, cloud computing, software development, and so much more, so sifting through all the details and crafting a strategy that’s right for your business involves understanding all the parts and including the right stakeholders.
Before embarking on your own IT automation effort, join us and our expert speakers to learn about the latest tools, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid.
These seismic shifts in cybersecurity will shape the face of zero-day attacks, ransomware, and supply chain compromises, leaving security teams wondering if their existing defenses can hold up against a new wave of threats powered by AI and new cloud-borne and cloud-targeted attacks.
In this event we’ll discuss:
- Automation as an essential survival skill
- The risks and rewards of using Generative AI to accelerate IT Automation Adoption
- Strategies for successfully automating ITSM
Treasures from the Archives...
Key Points:
- What organizations hope to get from AI is fast and accurate decision making on critical issues, the ability to automate internal and external operations, and faster times to market on decisions that concern marketing, selling, and producing new products and technologies.
- For the companies investing in AI, this risk comes when they employ AI learning models providing outcomes that may be inaccurate, which could lead to erroneous company decisions.
- The potential for inaccuracy arises because the data collected and the employees who developed the AI were not sufficiently broad and diverse in their perspectives.
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