Nature is not a blocker to housing growth and the government risks missing both its housing and nature targets if it views it as one, a cross-party group of MPs has warned in a new report. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill overrides existing habitat protections, which the government has suggested is a barrier to its target to build 1.5 million houses by the end of this parliament. But in a report published on Sunday, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) found the measures outlined in the bill are not enough to allow the government to meet its goals. Using nature as a scapegoat means that the government will be less effective at tackling some of the genuine challenges facing the planning system, the report said. A Ministry of Housing spokesperson said it was fixing a failing system with landmark reforms, which would deliver a win-win for the economy and the environment.

Recorded Future, the intelligence company, announced the immediate general availability of the world's first AI for intelligence. With Recorded Future AI, organizations can get automatic assessments of their threat landscape in real time and take immediate action. Recorded Future has trained the OpenAI GPT model on a decade of expert insight from Insikt Group, the world's foremost threat intelligence analyst team, and combined that with the world's largest intelligence holdings built from over 100 terabytes of text, images, and technical data, the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud. The unique combination of the structured, real-time Intelligence Graph and GPT's language skills brings automated intelligence to a whole new level. "Ten years ago, we built Recorded Future to go beyond search, and organize the internet for analytics. We achieved that mission with the Intelligence Cloud, with its growth matching the speed of the internet and enabling countries and the world's foremost organizations with intelligence. Now, with Recorded Future AI, we believe we can eliminate the cyber skills shortage and increase the capacity for cyber readiness by immediately surfacing actionable intelligence."

Robotic process automation (RPA) has been well received and is making a significant difference to business processes across organisations. At its next level, RPA is being enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) to transform business smartly. This is according to speakers at a roundtable hosted by UiPath in Cape Town, where executives discussed AI, automation the future of work. Michael Law, country manager at UiPath, told delegates: "RPA alone was last year. It has transformed areas such as finance and HR. UiPath is now bringing AI and automation together across the organisation."

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! There definitely have been easier years than 2022 for trying to start a business. Compared to larger firms, smaller companies have a harder time absorbing shocks like inflation changes, supply chain disruptions, and changing demographics in the workplace. We see evidence that investors are starting to prefer to see proof of profits, rather than growth, an anathema to the startup founders of only a few years ago.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become mainstream. Today, more enterprises in more industries are looking to technology like AI for a competitive edge and to help them manage the overwhelming volumes of data they both generate and collect. A recent study by IBM put the "global AI adoption rate" at 35% and found that 44% of global organizations are currently working on embedding AI into their operations. But despite this continued uptick in AI adoption, one element sure to put the brakes on many initiatives is the global skills shortage. Successful AI requires competent data scientists.

How are you evolving your skills for the future of work? This is one of the most pertinent questions workers are asking themselves. However, the answer is constantly changing. With every new technology, innovation, regulation, and system, the most in-demand skills shift. The capabilities that employers are looking for today are no longer the capabilities of last year, and in many industries this has created a significant skills gap.

When it comes to digital transformation, the Covid crisis has provided important lessons for business leaders. Among the most compelling lessons is the potential data analytics and artificial intelligence brings to the table. "Launching a direct-to-consumer business was always on our roadmap, but we certainly hadn't planned on launching it in 30 days in the middle of a pandemic," says Michael Lindsey, chief growth officer at Frito-Lay. "The pandemic inspired our teams to move faster that we would have dreamed possible." The crisis accelerated the adoption of analytics and AI, and this momentum will continue into the 2020s, surveys show. Fifty-two percent of companies accelerated their AI adoption plans because of the Covid crisis, a study by PwC finds.

The development of Artificial Intelligence has been one of the most impactful innovations in the past couple of years. It has and will continue to have significant transformational impact on technology as well as humans. With massive amount of data, AI enables machine to become smarter and more intelligent over time and perform tasks on their own with little or without intervention. Analyzing and responding to cyber threat is not human scalable problem. Applying AI to Security tools and techniques are critical in helping to detect and respond to security issues faster, saving costs and greatly reducing risk.

Organizations get caught between a rock and a hard place. With such a bleak future, how can the void be filled?

The course enables novice practitioners who are interested in entering the field of AI to become job-ready engineers in just six months. There will be a skill assessment to evaluate the student's current skills and experience, but the only prerequisites are a basic understanding of mathematics and statistics and, or alternatively, relevant experience in the industry, such as an internship. According to the 2020 IT Skills and Salary Report, 'AI, cognitive computing and machine learning' was reported as the second weakest IT skillset in organisations across the world, presenting serious hiring challenges for IT managers.[1] The lack of skilled AI professionals forms part of a broader technology skills shortage in Australia, with new research commissioned by AWS revealing that Australia will require an additional 6.5 million newly-skilled and reskilled digital workers by 2025 to meet future demand for technology skills (79 per cent more than Australia currently has). Jon Lang, CEO of AIICT said, "We're seeing a severe shortage of skilled AI professionals and in many instances, organisations are simply unable to fill these roles. With AI and ML becoming a critical part of the digital transformation process for many organisations, the demand is on the rise for engineers with these specific skills across a wide range of industries."