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Indian Student at MIT Creates Voice-Free Conversational Device

Analytics Vidhya

In a fascinating development, a student from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced AlterEgo, an innovative AI-enabled device. AlterEgo allows users to engage in natural language conversations with machines, AI assistants, services, and even other individuals without speaking a word aloud. Instead, users can articulate words internally, making communication seamless and discreet.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO Business Intelligence

The Miami-Illinois language of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Myaamiaki tribe) fell dormant during the 19th and 20th centuries, at a time when Indigenous populations faced forced relocations and abusive boarding schools, where children were forced to assimilate and were punished for using their own language. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Indigenous rights were recognized by the US government, along with the right to their heritage, language, and culture.

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A Comprehensive Guide to UNET Architecture | Mastering Image Segmentation

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the exciting subject of computer vision, where images contain many secrets and information, distinguishing and highlighting items is crucial. Image segmentation, the process of splitting images into meaningful regions or objects, is essential in various applications ranging from medical imaging to autonomous driving and object recognition.

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IT services company Atos finalizes plan for IBM-style split

CIO Business Intelligence

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. The deal will spell an end to the current one-stop shop for IT services that it offers its enterprise customers, but will free up capital and cash-flow for it to invest in more modern activities: digital transformation , smart digital platforms, cloud technology, cybersecurity, high-performance computing and AI.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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MIT’s PhotoGuard Uses AI to Defend Against AI Image Manipulation

Analytics Vidhya

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the ability to generate and manipulate hyper-realistic images is becoming increasingly accessible. While generative AI technology offers immense potential for creative expression and problem-solving, it raises concerns about potential misuse. To address this challenge, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have developed “PhotoGuard,” an innovative technique that […] The post MIT’s

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BIT’s Agrobit named a ‘Hero of Sustainability’ at SAP Innovation Awards

CIO Business Intelligence

The days of farmers pouring over a Farmer’s Almanac for answers about what and when to plant are gone – like dust in the wind. As the market has expanded worldwide and become more sophisticated, so have the challenges facing farmers and their questions about how to move forward. They want information and advice. BIT S.A. , headquartered in Argentina with offices in Spain and Brazil, has made its mission to provide intelligent agribusiness solutions to help farmers and companies.

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Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey

CIO Business Intelligence

The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. The report is based on an online survey conducted in April, which received responses from 1,684 participants globally across multiple industry sectors, company sizes, and functional specialties.

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Delhi Government Plans to Build AI Hub in Proposed Electronic City

Analytics Vidhya

In a significant move towards technological advancement, the Delhi government is envisioning an AI hub in the proposed electronic city. The city is being planned to be built in Baprola, southwest Delhi. This ambitious project will create a state-of-the-art industrial city equipped with cutting-edge AI technologies, providing an attractive ecosystem for global players in the […] The post Delhi Government Plans to Build AI Hub in Proposed Electronic City appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO Business Intelligence

At Broadcom, we make business decisions driven by what will bring customers the most value. The idea is simple: We tailor our innovations and solutions to their needs over the long term and equip them with the tools they need to drive outcomes. So, how do we make that happen? We listen to our customers. We co-create with them, and we invest in continuously addressing their needs.

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Mastering Regular Expressions with Python

KDnuggets

This article dives deep into the world of regular expressions with Python, providing a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to master this complex yet powerful tool, with detailed explanations and code examples.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Shallan Miller

Cloudera

In this Employee Spotlight, we sat down with Shallan Miller and talked about all things event marketing, her path back to this role after the Covid-19 pandemic and her perspective on the importance of cultivating resilience, communication skills, and keeping an open mind. Meet Shallan Miller Shallan is a Senior Marketing Events Manager at Cloudera.

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KDnuggets Top Posts for June 2023: GPT4All is the Local ChatGPT for your Documents and it is Free!

KDnuggets

GPT4All is the Local ChatGPT for your Documents and it is Free! • Falcon LLM: The New King of Open-Source LLMs • 10 ChatGPT Plugins for Data Science Cheat Sheet • ChatGPT for Data Science Interview Cheat Sheet • Noteable Plugin: The ChatGPT Plugin That Automates Data Analysis • 3 Ways to Access Claude AI for Free • What are Vector Databases and Why Are They Important for LLMs?

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5 things to know: IBM Cloud’s mission to accelerate innovation for clients

IBM Big Data Hub

Whether it’s addressing customer demands for seamless digital experiences or helping clients navigate complex industry regulations, IBM Cloud is committed to helping clients drive innovation today while preparing them for tomorrow. As enterprises embrace generative AI to drive innovation, the combination of IBM’s AI stack, industry expertise and infrastructure can help them on their journeys.

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Pythia: A Suite of 16 LLMs for In-Depth Research

KDnuggets

Pythia is a suite of 16 large language models by Eleuther AI. It helps understand and analyze autoregressive large language models during training and scaling.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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3 ways IBM and Adobe are transforming content supply chains with generative AI

IBM Big Data Hub

We’re delighted about the recent expansion of IBM and Adobe’s dynamic partnership to help brands transform their content supply chains using generative AI. Our longstanding partnership with Adobe spanning both technology and consulting allows us to offer an unparalleled range of services to meet the evolving needs of the marketing and creative community.

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Resilience in Data Services Through Mitigation and Prevention

TDAN

If your company works with data, then you need to work on securing it. When it’s lost or stolen by hackers, it can mean serious trouble for your organization and your bottom line.

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Incident management vs. problem management: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Every day, billions of people globally use their computers or mobile devices to access the Internet. Invariably, some of those users attempt to access a website that is either slow to load or prone to crashing. One reason that the website underperformed is that too many people were trying to access the site at the same time, overwhelming the servers.

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Unique Threat Landscape of Digital Divide

TDAN

Rural areas worldwide are disconnected in a landscape that nearly requires the internet to work or socially interact. But eventually, the entire planet will have equal, high-speed internet access. Neglecting the digital divide and broadband gap will cause cybersecurity concerns for communities entering the digital era. Regions new to the internet are more vulnerable.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Advanced endpoint protection vs. risk-based application patching vs. laptop management: Similarities and differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Gone are the days when antivirus software and a firewall were almost enough to protect an organization from cyberattacks. Trojans, worms and malware are no longer the only cyberthreats keeping IT and security professionals awake at night. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , for the second year in a row, phishing was the leading cyber threat, identified in 41% of incidents.

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The Art of Lean Governance: Need for an Integrated Governance Framework

TDAN

At a recent Data Governance conference, we had the opportunity to review several leading governance technology solutions. In their own right, these solutions were impressive, offering a wide spectrum of business and technology capabilities. As practitioner of Lean Governance. we are forever on the hunt for solutions that drive total data awareness across the enterprise.

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – July – 2023!

Smarten

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal. If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials. Knowledgebase Articles SSDP: Improve data extraction performance from database data source Smarten Application Security: Password patterns and configurations in Smarten Predictive Use cases Handling Missing Values using Smarten Augmented Analytics Independent Sample T-test Using Smarten Augmented

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A Step Ahead: Data in Support of (Zero) Trust

TDAN

Over the past year, the conversations around Zero Trust have begun to accelerate. Much of the discussion is akin to data mesh and data fabric where business owners and management are hearing the term and asking what a Zero Trust product is. The term is also permeating data professionals’ conversations.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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This is the easiest AI strategy decision you’ll ever make

CIO Business Intelligence

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Years before the meteoric adoption of ChatGPT made AI top of mind for just about everyone, the authors of Competing in the Age of AI had already pointed out something every business leader should ignore at their peril: In traditional operating models, scale inevitably reaches a point at which it delivers diminishing returns.

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The Impact of AI on the DBA

TDAN

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is having a significant impact on most industries and job roles these days, and it will only increase as AI techniques and algorithms improve over time. I’m sure you’ve heard about things like natural language processing, machine learning, and large language models such as those used by ChatGPT and Google Bard.

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5 Surprising Stats About the State of AI in 2023

Dataiku

In June 2023, Dataiku and Databricks surveyed 400 senior artificial intelligence (AI) professionals in large companies around the world. We of course looked at the attitudes and adoption of Generative AI. Survey questions also asked about the modern data stack , spend on AI tools and services, AI use case reach, and more. Here are five of the most surprising stats from this AI survey — get more insights in the full survey.

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Making the Case for Data Enablement (Rather Than Data Governance)

TDAN

There is a movement in the business and academic worlds to consider relabeling the name of the long-time data discipline of “Data Governance” to “Data Enablement”. Usually, when someone tells me something like this, my first response is to chuckle and nod my head.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Transforming AI with LangChain: A Text Data Game Changer

KDnuggets

Learn how to unleash this Python library to enhance our AI usage.

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How foundation models and data stores unlock the business potential of generative AI

IBM Big Data Hub

True to their name, generative AI models generate text, images, code , or other responses based on a user’s prompt. Organizations that utilize them correctly can see a myriad of benefits—from increased operational efficiency and improved decision-making to the rapid creation of marketing content. But what makes the generative functionality of these models—and, ultimately, their benefits to the organization—possible?

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How innovative modular UPSs support digital transformation at edge computing sites

CIO Business Intelligence

In this era of digital transformation, as we witness the runaway growth of edge computing , the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is doing its part to help organizations achieve scalability, redundancy, and resiliency goals. With traditional UPSs, if you need to expand, you typically must purchase another unit that will sit next to the existing UPS or replace it with more capacity.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams on-demand capacity mode now scales up to 1 GB/second ingest capacity

AWS Big Data

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store streaming data at any scale. As customers collect and stream more types of data, they have asked for simpler, elastic data streams that can handle variable and unpredictable data traffic. In November 2021, Amazon Web Services launched the on-demand capacity mode for Kinesis Data Streams, which is capable of serving gigabytes of write and read throughput per minute and helps reduce

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.