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AI and the future of work: Everything is about to change

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In just a few months, you'll be able to ask a virtual assistant to transcribe meeting notes during a work call, summarize long email threads to quickly draft suggested replies, quickly create a specific chart in Excel, and turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation in seconds. Over the past week, a rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape seemed to leap ahead again. Microsoft and Google each unveiled new AI-powered features for their signature productivity tools and OpenAI introduced its next-generation version of the technology that underpins its viral chatbot tool, ChatGPT. Suddenly, AI tools, which have long operated in the background of many services, are now more powerful and more visible across a wide and growing range of workplace tools. Google's new features, for example, promise to help "brainstorm" and "proofread" written work in Docs.


How Descript's generative AI makes video editing as easy as updating text

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Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. A podcaster steps up to a mic to do a review of a new chicken nugget brand. As he begins talking and recording himself on his laptop, real-time speech-to-text transcribes his comments: "So these nuggets are, um, made from chicken, but they're made to um, um, um, um, emulate the taste of, like, like, non chicken nuggets." That doesn't sound very professional; on his screen, he strikes through those filler words -- and while he's at it, boosts the podcast's sound quality before publishing it for his audience. This is one use case for audio-video editing tool Descript, which today announced a significant product update and a $50 million series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund. "The whole concept of Descript -- editing video like a doc -- is only possible because of AI [artificial intelligence]," said Jay LeBoeuf, Descript's head of business and corporate development.


How AI could help enterprises to reduce data storage costs

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We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. The amount of data managed by the world's enterprises is growing. According to one source, the total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed globally was about 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 -- equal to a trillion gigabytes. Unsurprisingly, companies report that the cost of storing their data is also climbing. In a 2018 Enterprise Storage Forum survey, business leaders said that the high costs of operation, a lack of storage capacity, and aging equipment were among their top concerns.


Enterprise AIOps quietly gets real

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Buzz in the IT industry around AIOps has died down considerably over the last three years. Amid the waning fanfare, however, real-world use of IT automation based on machine learning algorithms has emerged among enterprises. AIOps -- or AI for IT Operations -- refers to the use of machine learning algorithms to automate routine IT tasks. That can include sifting through IT monitoring alerts, responding to incidents or handling the so-called "undifferentiated heavy lifting" required to do routine maintenance on infrastructure systems. The term emerged in the mainstream in 2018, and by 2019, AIOps had become a common industry buzzword, prompted several mergers and acquisitions among IT vendors and along with them, plenty of speculation about a highly automated, AI-driven future for computing.


Government and business can develop an ethical AI future together, KPMG study finds

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The pandemic turned the world upside down and businesses stepped up to the challenge, accelerating their digital transformation and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help overcome new challenges in a new world. A new study by KPMG, Thriving in an AI World: Unlocking the Value of AI across 7 Industries," found that while some executives are experiencing a bit of COVID-19-induced whiplash as they reckon with AI challenges, industry leaders are optimistic about the new administration's role in helping to achieve an AI-forward future. "We reached out to decision-makers, many of whom said AI is moving too fast, but many also felt that the U.S. is being left behind when it comes to AI adoption," says Swami Chandrasekaran, managing director at the KPMG Digital Lighthouse and Head of Digital Solutions Architecture. Yet overwhelmingly, industry leaders believe the Biden administration will not only help advance the adoption of AI, they also believe the government has an ...


The Uneasy Alliance Between Business Leaders And Artificial Intelligence

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What does it take to be an executive these days? In my youth, there was a prime-time television show called Arnie, about a loading-dock worker who comes up with a money-saving idea for his company, and gets vaulted to the executive suite. Along with ample time to practice golf putts in the office, Arnie needs to learn the art of assembling and filing reports for his higher-ups. Such was corporate life in the 1970s. Of course, C-level executives these days don't need people bird-dogging and assembling reports for them, they have systems that automatically deliver reports, on-demand, with relevant data right to their laptops or mobile devices.


String Tightening as a Self-Organizing Phenomenon: Computation of Shortest Homotopic Path, Smooth Path, and Convex Hull

Banerjee, Bonny

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

One of the most well known of The phenomenon of self-organization has been of special such attempts is that of Kohonen's who proposed the interest to the neural network community for decades. In Self-Organizing Map (SOM) [2] inspired by the way in this paper, we study a variant of the Self-Organizing Map which various human sensory impressions are topographically (SOM) that models the phenomenon of self-organization mapped into the neurons of the brain. SOM possesses of the particles forming a string when the string is tightened the capability to extract features from a multidimensional from one or both ends. The proposed variant, called data set by creating a vector quantizer by adjusting the String Tightening Self-Organizing Neural Network weights from common input nodes to M output (STON), can be used to solve certain practical problems, nodes arranged in a two dimensional grid. At convergence, such as computation of shortest homotopic paths, the weights specify the clusters or vector centers smoothing paths to avoid sharp turns, and computation of the set of input vectors such that the point density of convex hull. These problems are of considerable interest function of the vector centers tend to approximate the in computational geometry, robotics path planning, probability density function of the input vectors. Several AI (diagrammatic reasoning), VLSI routing, and geographical authors in different contexts reported different dynamic information systems. Given a set of obstacles versions of SOM [2-11].


How to Staff Your AI Team

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Organizations face challenges in scaling artificial intelligence (AI) projects because they lack the requisite skills, collaboration, tooling and know-how to create and manage a robust, production-grade AI pipeline. Through 2023, Gartner estimates that 50% of IT leaders will struggle to move their AI projects past proof of concept (POC) to a production level of maturity. To reduce this high failure rate, organizations need to build the right roles for AI success. "In many organizations, data scientists are still wearing too many hats due to a dearth of talent across other roles," said Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner, during his session at virtual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2020. How leaders can create value in a new digital age.


How to Staff Your AI Team

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Organizations face challenges in scaling artificial intelligence (AI) projects because they lack the requisite skills, collaboration, tooling and know-how to create and manage a robust, production-grade AI pipeline. Through 2023, Gartner estimates that 50% of IT leaders will struggle to move their AI projects past proof of concept (POC) to a production level of maturity. To reduce this high failure rate, organizations need to build the right roles for AI success. "In many organizations, data scientists are still wearing too many hats due to a dearth of talent across other roles," said Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner, during his session at virtual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2020. To successfully operationalize and scale AI initiatives, organizations need to build diverse AI roles and skills.


'Wearing too many hats': How to bridge the AI skills gap

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Organizations with an interdisciplinary team have a "far higher ratio of success" when deploying AI projects, said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, speaking at a Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas session last week. Interdisciplinary teams that blend roles across business and data science have a higher ratio of success with AI projects, as well as a faster time to production. This trend "clearly tells us that AI needs to be a team sport, said Chandrasekaran. "However, in reality what we see in most organizations is data scientists wearing too many hats, because there's a dearth of skills across other areas," he said. Organizations with an interdisciplinary team have a "far higher ratio of success" when deploying AI projects, said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, speaking at a Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas session last week. Interdisciplinary teams that blend roles across business and data science have a higher ratio of success with AI projects, as well as a faster time to production. This trend "clearly tells us that AI needs to be a team sport, said Chandrasekaran.