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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

In a special two-episode podcast, Krishan shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI), specifically around two wildly popular, yet extremely contentious apps: ChatGPT and TikTok. government’s AI spending, which has more than doubled since 2017. Industry adoption of AI and the impact on rules and regulations.

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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

At some point the debt reaches a tipping point where the high costs of maintenance prevent innovation. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt. Intellectual debt.

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Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice

All Things Distributed

However, it is still Day One, and a lot of innovation is underway in this world. As such there is also a strong need for fundamental research on these interactions, best described as “Conversational Artificial Intelligence.”. Today, we are pleased to announce the Alexa Prize, a $2.5 And remember: it is still Day One!

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.