The EU wants to regulate your favorite AI tools
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How was your break? I spent mine back home in snowy Finland, extremely offline. Bliss! I hope you’re well-rested, because this year is going to be even wilder than 2022 for AI. Last…
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Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
When Greg unboxed a new Roomba robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into. He would allow the preproduction test version of iRobot’s Roomba J series device to roam around his house, let it collect all sorts of data to help improve its artificial intelligence, and provide feedback…
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What Will VC Deals in 2023 Look Like?
After an incredibly successful decade, the US VC market saw a dramatic shift in 2021. 2021 was characterized by sky-high venture capital and excitement about what that could bring. This wave of optimism has crashed as 2022 rolled around. Unsustainable “growth at all costs” strategies have been discarded and replaced with a focus on building…
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Is Generative AI another Watson?
In 2011, IBM’s Watson supercomputer made history by crushing two masters of trivia in a game of “Jeopardy!”. Touting its AI abilities, the company decided to make a substantial investment toward applying its power to solve healthcare. Now, after billions invested and a series of high-profile setbacks, the company is effectively selling Watson and sun-setting…
Read MoreHow SAP Helped Create a Next-Generation Factory for Beauty and Sustainability
The product line is designed to be beautiful as well as sustainable in terms of its durability and benefits for the environment. It’s highly resistant to scratches, abrasions, dry heat, solvents and cleaners, food, ink, makeup, crayons, and much more so that it can stay beautiful for years to come. But what the revolutionary high-pressure…
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AI that makes images: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
OpenAI introduced a world of weird and wonderful mash-ups when its text-to-image model DALL-E was released in 2021. Type in a short description of pretty much anything, and the program spat out a picture of what you asked for in seconds. DALL-E 2, unveiled in April 2022, was a massive leap forward. Google also launched…
Read MoreEstes Express shifts gears on customer experience by streamlining data operations
Customers are increasingly demanding access to real-time data, and freight transportation provider Estes Express Lines is among the rising tide of enterprises overhauling their data operations to deliver it. To fuel self-service analytics and provide the real-time information customers and internal stakeholders need to meet customers’ shipping requirements, the Richmond, VA-based company, which operates a…
Read MoreTop 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023
Three years ago, IT leaders were squarely focused on how to adopt fledgling AI techniques and approaches into their business models in service of digital transformations that included plans for shifting some workloads to the cloud. But then the pandemic hit, requiring a historic pivot that set some best-laid plans aside and accelerated others. Now…
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