All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The adoption of cloud technologies continues to accelerate. According to the newest report from Canalys, in Q2 2021, companies spent $5 billion more on cloud infrastructure services compared to the previous quarter. While a number of factors are responsible, including an increased focus […]
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AI Weekly: WHO outlines steps for creating inclusive AI health care systems
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its first global report on AI in health, along with six guiding principles for design, development, and deployment. The fruit of two years of consultations with WHO-appointed experts, the work […]
AI Weekly: NIST proposes ways to identify and address AI bias
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Proposed framework Tackling bias in AI VentureBeat up-to-date information on the subjects of interest to you our newsletters gated thought-leader content and discounted access to our prized events, such as Transform 2021: Learn More networking features, and more […]
AI Weekly: China’s massive multimodal model highlights AI research gap
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week, researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) announced the release of Wu Dao 2.0, a multimodal AI model capable of generating text indiscernible from human-crafted prose — and more. Containing 1.75 trillion parameters, the parts of the machine learning model learned […]
AI Weekly: Here’s how enterprises say they’re deploying AI responsibly
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Companies in enterprise automation Companies in hiring and recruitment Companies in marketing and management The road ahead VentureBeat up-to-date information on the subjects of interest to you our newsletters gated thought-leader content and discounted access to our prized events, such […]
AI Weekly: Facebook, Google, and the tension between profits and fairness
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. This week, we learned a lot more about the inner workings of AI fairness and ethics operations at Facebook and Google and how things have gone wrong. On Monday, a Google employee group wrote a letter asking Congress and state […]
AI Weekly: Techno-utopianism in the workplace and the threat of excessive automation
Every so often, VentureBeat writes a story about something that needs to go away. A few years back, my colleague Blair Hanley Frank argued that AI systems like Einstein, Sensei, and Watson must go because corporations tend to overpromise results for their products and services. I’ve also taken runs at charlatan AI and white supremacy. This […]
AI Weekly: The future of tech policy after an attempted coup
On Wednesday, we witnessed a coup attempt fueled by racism, disinformation, and the President of the United States. Video of the U.S. Capitol breach shows that Trump supporters were permitted to violate multiple federal laws, desecrate the people’s house, undermine national security, and violently oppose the largest exercise of the right to vote since the […]
AI Weekly: The argument in favor of regulation in 2021
2020 was an eventful year, not least of which because of a pandemic that shows little sign of abating. The AI research community experienced its own tribulations, capped off by Google’s firing of ethicist Timnit Gebru and a spat over AI ethics and “cancel culture” involving retired University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos. Facebook chief […]
AI Weekly: The election
In the United States, there was nothing else this week except for the presidential election. More people voted in this election than in any other previous U.S. presidential election — a total of 143,518,226 votes and counting. As we close out a long, stressful week, it appears all but a formality that Joe Biden and […]