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Microsoft welcomes Biden’s new AI order — is that a good thing or bad?
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last month laid down a wide-ranging executive order targeting generative AI, dealing with everything from safety and security measures, to issues related to bias and civil rights, and oversight over how genAI is produced. On the surface, the order sounds like a comprehensive and powerful one. But is it really?…
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Dell cuddles up to Hugging Face to offer genAI to customers
Dell has unveiled a partnership with Hugging Face to help it develop open-source generative AI models for Dell’s infrastructure and customers to use. Through the partnership Dell will provide a pre-packaged AI solution. Hugging Face develops tools for building applications using machine learning and open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dell said it plans to use the software…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT turns one year old; what it did (and didn’t do)
When San Francisco startup OpenAI launched ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, the technology landscape was shaken to its core — and artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly moved from being a fringe idea to mainstream adoption. “We spent a couple of decades learning how to talk to machines. What changed in November 2022 is that machines learned…
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Microsoft combines Copilot AI with mixed reality for industrial workers
Microsoft plans to integrate its Copilot generative AI (genAI) assistant into a mixed-reality app that can provide guidance to factory technicians, aiming to reduce the time needed to manage and maintain industrial equipment. At its Ignite conference Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Copilot will be integrated into Dynamics 365 Guides. Guides, launched in preview in 2019,…
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Q&A: NY Life exec says AI will reboot hiring, training, change management
In 2015, New York Life Insurance Co. began building up a data science team to investigate the use of predictive models to improve efficiency and increase productivity. There were quite a few deployments of predictive models across the company with a little artificial intelligence to aid in automation. Most of the projects were not centered…