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Enhance Your Professional Toolkit With This AI Skills Bundle for $30
Harness the power of AI with the 2024 AI Super Skills Bundle: 8 courses covering tools like Quillbot, DALL-E 3, and ChatGPT for just $29.99 (reg. $152).
The 5 Best Laptop Deals for August 2024
The best laptop deals in August 2024 can help you get more done during the workday without emptying your bank account.
Etched founder Gavin Uberti thinks his company stands on the “shoulders of giants”
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 sparked a new wave of AI companies. It also brought attention to the companies that were already building in the space like Etched. Etched co-founder and CEO Gavin Uberti said on a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Found podcast that his company “stands on the shoulders of giants.” While […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Etched founder Gavin Uberti thinks his company stands on the ‘shoulders of giants’
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 sparked a new wave of AI companies. It also brought attention to the companies that were already building in the space like Etched. Etched co-founder and CEO Gavin Uberti said on a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Found podcast that his company “stands on the shoulders of giants.” While […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Three-Quarters of Companies Retain An Increasing Amount of Sensitive Data, Report Finds
Perforce reveals that companies are struggling with increased sensitive data in non-production environments, leading to higher breach risks and compliance challenges.
AI and Sustainability: How Is Australia Striving to Lead In Both?
Discover how Australia is using AI to support sustainability efforts — but also how the technology is creating new challenges that the nation must overcome.
Qualtrics Is Betting AI Will Change the Game in the Customer Experience Software Market in 2024
Qualtrics is adding a new menu of AI features that ingest huge amounts of customer data to create insights for global customers seeking to better manage customer experiences.
Peering into the mind of artificial intelligence to make better antibiotics
Artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded in popularity as of late. But just like a human, it's hard to read an AI model's mind. Explainable AI (XAI) could help us do just that by providing justification for a model's decisions. And now, researchers are using XAI to scrutinize predictive AI models more closely, which could help make better antibiotics.
SOCI Act 2024: Thales Report Reveals Critical Infrastructure Breaches in Australia
Thales' 2024 Data Threat Report reveals key insights for Australian critical infrastructure under the SOCI Act 2024. Our exclusive interview with Erick Reyes reveals the security impacts.
Generative artificial intelligence can not yet reliably read and extract information from clinical notes in medical records
A new study found that using ChatGPT-4 to read medical notes from Emergency Department admissions to determine whether injured scooter and bicycle riders were wearing a helmet finds that AI can't yet do this reliably.
How to Use AI in Business
Artificial intelligence is taking the business world by storm, as it is an impressive technology that can serve many uses within the workplace. While the future of AI is not guaranteed, the AI market size worldwide grew beyond $184 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow past $826 billion in 2030, according to Statista. ...
Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products
Popular iPad design app Procreate is coming out against generative AI, and has vowed never to introduce generative AI features into its products. The company said on its website that although machine learning is a “compelling technology with a lot of merit,” the current path that generative AI is on is wrong for its platform. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Controversial California AI Law Moves Forward With Amendments from Anthropic
SB-1047 would provide whistleblower protections and oversight for companies developing generative AI capable of “critical harm.”
Detecting machine-generated text: An arms race with the advancements of large language models
Today, many commercial tools claim to be highly successful at detecting machine-generated text, with up to 99% accuracy, but are these claims too good to be true? RAID, the Robust AI Detection benchmark, which shows that most detectors are easily fooled, setting a new bar for AI detection to clear.
Security Experts Welcome NIST’s New Encryption Standards For Quantum Computers
Although quantum computing is not yet widespread, current encryption methods pose a significant risk of cyberattacks, the agency said.
3 Questions: How to prove humanity online
AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters?
Best of CTCCC 2024: Deepfake Video and Image Detection, AI at the Edge, and Taking AI to the Next Level
The 7th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems and the 5th Communication Technologies and Cloud Computing Conference took place in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 14–16, 2024. Our contributing writer, Drew Robb, attended in person. In this TechRepublic Premium feature, read some of the highlights of an event that included the manipulation of images and ...
Teradata: Generative AI Projects Risk Failure Without Business Executive Understanding
Teradata’s Chris Hillman believes that many AI initiatives are failing because business executives do not understand them.
CBA’s x15ventures Set to Lead in Fintech AI Innovation
CBA's x15ventures is transforming fintech AI with its Xccelerate program, boosting innovation and setting new industry benchmarks in AI technology.
New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain
The software tool NeuroTrALE is designed to quickly and efficiently process large amounts of brain imaging data semi-automatically.
