Scoring Sustainability Goals: The Sports Industry’s Tech-Powered Green Revolution
In the league of a greener future, technology is the sports industry’s star player, where scoring sustainability goals is as thrilling as the game itself, says William Xiong, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence and General Manager for International Industry Solutions. In recent years, the sports industry has emerged as an influential player in the […]
Developing an AI use policy
How businesses can benefit from using AI while minimising risks If you use ChatGPT, or other AI tools, for work related tasks, does your boss know? If you answered “No”, you’re not alone. Seven out of ten professionals (68 per cent) using AI at work are doing it secretly, according to a survey by communication […]
‘More than a productivity tool’: Realising AI’s transformative impact
Artificial intelligence has reached an inflection point, with the recent excitement around Generative AI causing virtually every organisation to assess AI’s potential impact, both positive and negative. As such, there has been a seismic shift in the perception of AI – it is no longer an emerging technology; it’s a strategic priority. And so, for […]
How companies should prepare for the EU AI Act and DORA
Two new EU regulations are currently keeping UK companies busy: the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which came into force in January 2024, and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which passed in May. DORA will regulate the areas of cyber security, IT risk, and resilience in the financial sector and will start to be […]
Machine vision: the key to unleashing automation’s full potential
Businesses across the globe are dealing with daily financial and political uncertainty, set against a backdrop of pandemic recovery. Optimizing processes and systems with advanced automation has the potential to improve efficiencies and support companies as they look to not just survive but thrive in a volatile environment. Machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and […]
Building Generative AI – what do you need to know?
The growth of ChatGPT since November 2022 has been nothing short of astronomical. The service gets around 1.5billion visits a month according to SimilarWeb, and led to a huge swell of interest and investment in Generative AI. According to CB Insights, around $14.6billion of venture capital went to companies involved in this area during the […]
Does your company need it’s own LLM? The reality is, it probably doesn’t!
Six months have passed since we were catapulted into the post-ChatGPT era, and every day AI news is making more headlines. Releases of new LLMS by specialised research houses like Anthropic with Claude, and DeepMind with Chinchilla, are reaching our ears. Meta has released LLaMA, while Google has been reminding us that LaMDA has existed […]
AI still needs humans to stay intelligent—here’s why
“Yesterday.” That’s often the answer I give to business leaders who ask me about the best time to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). After all, IBM calls it ‘potentially the most powerful technology businesses have ever had access to’. Research shows it promises to transform profitability over the next 15 years. And with two-thirds of companies […]
Let’s make AI boring
The conversation about applying artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses has shifted dramatically Not that long ago organisations were being urged to ‘just get started’ – to set up a dream team of data scientists and protect them from the rest of the company, letting them get on with developing proofs of concept and allowing them […]
Why deep learning technology is dividing opinion in the tech world
The history of deep learning goes back as far as 1943, when Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch created a computer model based on the neural networks of the human brain Today, if we asked a language model like GPT-3 to write an article about the history of deep learning, it might begin with that sentence. […]