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Hugging Face is launching an open source robotics project led by former Tesla scientist
Remi Cadene's move signals an ambitious expansion for Hugging Face, which until now, has primarily focused on software, not hardware.
OpenAI’s Sora: The devil is in the ‘details of the data’
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. For OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, an exclusive Wall Street Journal interview with…
OpenAI adds ‘Read Aloud’ voiceover to ChatGPT, allowing it to speak its outputs
OpenAI introduced a minor but potentially useful ChatGPT update for users: voiceover narration for the chatbot's responses.
Meta ramps up efforts to combat disinformation ahead of crucial EU elections
As crucial EU elections approach, Facebook's parent Meta unveils new strategies to detect deepfakes and combat disinformation, but experts say influencers remain vulnerable to manipulation.
United Healthcare’s ransomware attack shows why supply chains are under siege
Healthcare supply chains are facing a digital pandemic, with the latest UnitedHealth Group breach showing the power of an orchestrated ransomware attack to shut down supply chains.
VentureBeat on Artificial Intelligence
Why AI is a small business’s best friend
Both on the cloud and in the traditional data center, new services and software releases are bringing advanced AI tools to small businesses in low-cost, easy-to-use formats that don’t require rare and…
Building global AI with local impact in an AI economy
Thanks to tech advances in the AI economy that enable remote work, orgs developing AI can now collaborate with people from almost anywhere.
VentureBeat on Gaming
Tencent’s Steven Ma: Why big acquisitions will be good for gamers
Tencent's Steven Ma says game costs are soaring into hundreds of millions of dollars and so big acquisitions are good for gamers.
Emerging developers on Roblox are gaming’s rising stars
Amid the sea of bad news about layoffs, there aren't many bright spots in gaming. But making games on the Roblox platform can be one of them.
VentureBeat on Google
Introducing the Bots Landscape: 170+ companies, $4 billion in funding, thousands of bots
I Google search, therefore I bot.
ChatGPT and the unbundling of online search
Unbundling online search and integrating an LLM resource like ChatGPT into products can reduce the need for and dominance of Google Search.
VentureBeat on Low Code
No-code/low-code: Why you should be paying attention
Guest We’ve all been hearing the hype lately about low-code and no-code platforms. The promise of no-code platforms is that they’ll make software development just as easy as using Word or PowerPoint…
80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools
Thanks to low-code tools and AI, 80% of tech will be built outside of IT teams, according to new predictions from Gartner.
«The research firm found that by 2024, 80% of tech products and services will be built by people who are not technology professionals.»
VentureBeat on Machine Learning
Why data remains the greatest challenge for machine learning projects
Appen’s latest State of AI Report reveals advances in helping enterprises overcome barriers to sourcing and preparing their data.
Why LLMs are vulnerable to the ‘butterfly effect’
Researchers found that the smallest of perturbations, such as adding a space at the end of a prompt, can cause an LLM to change its answer.
VentureBeat on Metaverse
Why the future of the metaverse can only be decentralized
The ideal metaverse should break barriers and transform the big tech business model. Embrace an open, decentralized model for the metaverse.
The metaverse will fuel massive innovation (and Facebook isn’t the metaverse)
In a decentralized metaverse, users will put their trust in a peer-to-peer network rather than a centralized operator.
VentureBeat on Microsoft
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer
What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often, innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory.
Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big deal
Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance signals the tech giant's AI strategy in Azure, self-driving cars, and other products beyond health care AI.
«Deep learning might not be very good at general problem-solving or causal inference, but it can be extremely efficient at narrow tasks. Nuance has chosen one application (voice transcription) and has narrowed down its focus to one domain (clinical settings).»
VentureBeat on Mixed Reality
Mixed reality is the UI of the future
The past few decades of computing and the internet have been limited to flat 2D screens on laptops, tablets, and smartphones. However, the rise of mixed reality means that society will soon move be…
Mixed reality developers need to talk safety now — before apologizing later
As mixed reality evolves there will be solutions, but in order to find them engineers first need to start asking questions of themselves.
VentureBeat on NLP
AI researchers launch SuperGLUE, a rigorous benchmark for language understanding
A consortium of AI researchers from Facebook, NYU, and Google's DeepMind have created SuperGLUE, a benchmark for more nuanced, complex conversational AI.
Intel AI Lab open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP
The Intel AI Lab has open-sourced a library for natural language processing to help researchers and developers give conversational agents like chatbots and virtual assistants the smarts necessary t…
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Digital accessibility: What to do when the data says you don’t exist
While data is known to have plenty of positives, it can create problems too -- not least as a source of inequality that fails those with disabilities and also your business decision-making.
The DeanBeat: Be nice. Be kind.
We've got a simple message for gamers harassing game developers for perceived slights. Be nice. Be kind. And be patient.
Why marketers need to jump on the AI bandwagon
Automations created by AI and ML present many business opportunities that marketers must start taking advantage of.
«Automations powered by machine learning can help businesses with several tasks, such as identifying patterns, analyzing data and making predicti»
AI is quietly eating up the world’s workforce with job automation
AI job automation affects virtually every sector and industry. While this might seem like cause for alarm, it’s actually long overdue news.
How to create space for ethics in AI
We can't wait for tech regulation and competition reform to ensure ethical AI. We need to move forward now.
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