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The top 10 tech stories of 2023

January 13, 2024 0 Comments augmented reality, careers, generative ai, regulation, remote work, Security, Technology Industry, Virtual Reality

The top technology stories of 2023 highlight fundamental changes in culture and geopolitics as well as tech itself: It’s clear that generative AI will affect all aspects of technology and society, while geopolitical tensions are sparking cybersecurity attacks globally. General unease about the dominance of big tech, meanwhile, is pushing regulators to get tougher on mopolistic business practices and multibillion-dollar mergers.

Fired! Rehired! Sam Altman’s ouster and return to OpenAI

The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, which sparked the modern era of generative AI when it launched ChatGPT a year earlier, was the tech industry shocker of the year. After the board issued a mysterious statement on November 17 saying that it had fired Altman for not being “consistently candid,” Microsoft announced that it would hire Altman and any other OpenAI employees who wanted to follow him out the door — which turned out to be almost all of them. OpenAI backed down and rehired Altman.

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Choosing a genAI partner: Trust, but verify

January 13, 2024 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, generative ai, Security, Technology Industry

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:03:00 -0800

Enterprise executives, still enthralled by the possibilities of generative artificial intelligence (genAI), more often than not are insisting that their IT departments figure out how to make the technology work.

Let’s set aside the usual concerns about genAI, such as the hallucinations and other errors that make it essential to check every single line it generates (and obliterate any hoped-for efficiency boosts). Or that data leakage is inevitable and will be next to impossible to detect until it is too late. (OWASP has put together an impressive list of the biggest IT threats from genAI and LLMs in general.)

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ComputerWorld Independent

Internet traffic soars in 2023, with generative AI a standout trend: Report

December 13, 2023 0 Comments generative ai, Internet, Security

This year saw a 25% rise in global internet traffic, reflecting an increasing reliance on online services, according to a new report by cloud performance and security company Cloudflare.

In its annual Year in Review reports, Cloudflare offers an overview of online trends and security issues. This year, Cloudflare said, Google retained its position as the most popular internet site, followed by Facebook, Apple, and TikTok. Facebook surpassed 2022’s leader, TikTok, in social media, with Instagram and Twitter/X also ranking highly.

The emerging category of generative AI services saw OpenAI in the lead, followed by Character AI, Quillbot, and Hugging Face.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Meta releases open-source tools for AI safety

December 8, 2023 0 Comments generative ai, open-source, Security

The Purple Llama project aims to help developers build generative AI models responsibly.

MalwareBytes Security

Meta’s Purple Llama wants to test safety risks in AI models

December 8, 2023 0 Comments AI, Business, generative ai, llama guard, memory safe programming, news, purple llama

Meta’s Project Llama aims to help developers filter out specific items that might cause their AI model to produce inappropriate content.

ComputerWorld Independent

GenAI is highly inaccurate for business use — and getting more opaque

November 29, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, chatbots, Emerging Technology, generative ai, regulation, Security

Large language models (LLMs), the algorithmic platforms on which generative AI (genAI) tools like ChatGPT are built, are highly inaccurate when connected to corporate databases and becoming less transparent, according to two studies.

One study by Stanford University showed that as LLMs continue to ingest massive amounts of information and grow in size, the genesis of the data they use is becoming harder to track down. That, in turn, makes it difficult for businesses to know whether they can safely build applications that use commercial genAI foundation models and for academics to rely on them for research.

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The Dark Side of AI: Large-Scale Scam Campaigns Made Possible by Generative AI

November 27, 2023 0 Comments adversarial ai, ai research, Artificial intelligence, featured, generative ai, scams

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:30:18 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E have created a great deal of disruption across much of our digital lives. Creating credible text, images and even audio, these AI tools can be used for both good and ill. That includes their application in the cybersecurity space. While Sophos AI has been working […]

ComputerWorld Independent

Q&A: Cisco CIO sees AI embedded in every product and process

November 5, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Emerging Technology, employee experience, generative ai, Internet, Security, videoconferencing

Less than a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public, Cisco Systems is already well into the process of embedding generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into its entire product portfolio and internal backend systems.

The plan is to use it in virtually every corner of the business, from automating network functions and monitoring security to creating new software products.

But Cisco’s CIO, Fletcher Previn, is also dealing with a scarcity of IT talent to create and tweak large language model (LLM) platforms for domain-specific AI applications. As a result, IT workers are learning as they go, while discovering new places and ways the ever-evolving technology can create value.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Biden lays down the law on AI

October 30, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Emerging Technology, generative ai, Government, healthcare industry, Privacy, regulation, Security, Software Development

In a sweeping executive order, US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday set up a comprehensive series of standards, safety and privacy protections, and oversight measures for the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI).

Among more than two dozen initiatives, Biden’s “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” order was a long time coming, according to many observers who’ve been watching the AI space — especially with the rise of generative AI (genAI) in the past year.

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ComputerWorld Independent

‘Data poisoning’ anti-AI theft tools emerge — but are they ethical?

October 30, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Emerging Technology, generative ai, Intel, legal, Microsoft, natural language processing, regulation, Security

Technologists are helping artists fight back against what they see as intellectual property (IP) theft by generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools whose training algorithms automatically scrape the internet and other places for content.

The fight over what constitutes fair use of content found online is at the heart of what has been an ongoing court battle. The fight goes beyond artwork to whether genAi companies like Microsoft and its partner, OpenAI, can incorporate software code and other published content into their models.

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