Articles about AI

Over the past couple of years IBM has been undergoing something of a transformation. While its mainframe and mid-range hardware offerings remain at its core, Big Blue has been looking to capture a slice of the $1 trillion hybrid cloud and AI market and help clients automate, secure and modernize their businesses.

Partnerships have been an important element of this and today the company is changing how it supports partners with the launch of a single, integrated experience that offers access to IBM resources, incentives and tailored support to deepen their technical expertise and help speed time to market.

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Although the death of the password has been predicted for many years, older technology still clings on when it comes to verifying identities.

But that's changing, particularly with the massive growth in the numbers of machine IDs. Here is what some industry experts think we'll see from the identity world in 2023.

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2022 was a year of extreme complexities. With the post-pandemic and Brexit fallout, cost of living rises and inflationary pressures, geo-political issues, ongoing climate crisis, supply chain shortages and growing cybersecurity and data security threats, it was undoubtably another unprecedented year.

In fact, ransomware set annual records again, with new ransomware strains emerging. Additionally, cloud adoption continued to grow, while the IT jobs market experienced significant skills shortages. As we look forward to the start of a new year, what trends are on the horizon in 2023 and what issues will organizations be grappling with?

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As technology advances, so does how we market our products and services. And with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), businesses are beginning to explore how this innovative technology can be used to improve their marketing strategies.

AI offers several content marketing advantages, including personalizing content, targeting specific audiences, and optimizing campaigns. As more businesses adopt AI-powered content marketing, it is becoming increasingly clear that this technology is the future of content marketing. This article will explore the various ways in which AI is shaping the future of content marketing.

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In addition to pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the healthcare sector has also been in the forefront of new technologies like smart devices and the use of AI.

The rate of change seems unlikely to slow down next year, so what can we expect to see in the healthcare tech sector in 2023?

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Work trends have rapidly changed across the world, post-pandemic. How and where people choose to work now or in the future is and will be radically different from how it used to be a few years ago. Labor markets across all sectors have undergone drastic shifts in terms of talent requirements and demands, as businesses across the board increasingly accelerate the adoption of automation and emerging technologies.

This has resulted in a growing skills scarcity across the globe. As more technical and digital skills are required by workers in order to master emerging technologies, many organizations risk being left behind due to an undereducated and underprepared workforce. Businesses need to take the required steps now towards ensuring that their workforce, both present and future, has the training and digital skills needed to thrive in the working environment set to emerge over the next decade.

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It's the time of year when people start to look ahead to the next one and offer predictions for what might lie ahead. For the past couple of years this has rather been hijacked by events including COVID, the Ukraine conflict and consequent economic disruption.

This hasn't stopped people in the tech world making predictions though, in fact we've received more this year than ever. So in the first of a series of roundups let's take a look at what might lie ahead for AI in 2023.

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This year's annual Call for Code Global Challenge, backed by IBM and the Linux Foundation, invited innovators across the world to help accelerate sustainability and combat climate change with open source-powered technology.

It's been won by GardenMate for creating an app that uses the IBM Watson AI platform to connect gardeners with excess produce to people in need.

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Windows 12 will offer a number of improvements that will make it better than its predecessor, Windows 11. One of the biggest advantages of Windows 12 is that it will offer improved security. Microsoft is introducing multiple new features to better protect user data, such as a new secure kernel, a secure boot process, and a new sandbox security model.

In addition, Windows 12 will offer improved performance, with better memory management and faster start-up times. The new version of Windows will also provide better support for multi-core processors, and it will introduce new graphics APIs such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan, which will provide improved performance in gaming and multimedia applications.

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We live in a world where businesses constantly reinvent themselves to remain competitive. Automation and digitization goals feature in well over half of all today’s businesses’ long-term corporate strategies, according to PwC's most recent annual Global CEO Survey. Which is why artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual worlds or 'metaverse' related technologies and tools have risen to prominence, particularly in relation to improving on-the-job training and upskilling new talent.

In 2022, many businesses are now starting to benefit from the application of AI and metaverse technologies in providing streamlined training and onboarding for employees. Combining AI and metaverse technologies affords companies an incredible new opportunity to train and equip people with the necessary skills to navigate the future of work.

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Innovation calls upon us to challenge existing paradigms. Women in technology understand this all too well. Many of us have stepped into roles that were traditionally dominated by men. We’ve had to swim upstream to establish our bona fides.

Personally, I’m proud to have achieved a host of "firsts" in my career, and today I’m surrounded by creative thinkers who are applying new technology to approach old problems differently. In my world, challenging existing paradigms is par for the course.

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Cloud technology has been gaining momentum in the last couple of years.

It threw a lifeline to companies by making remote work at the start of the crisis possible, enabled scaling for a reduced cost, and made information that much more accessible. However, all of these benefits also come with security risks for organizations that haven’t adequately protected their new infrastructure.

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Business adoption of AI is on the rise in the UK. According to a Government report, roughly 15` percent of all UK businesses have adopted at least one AI technology, with a further 10` percent planning to do so. Adoption is really taking off in larger firms, with more than two-thirds (68` percent) of them having used AI.

But what practical benefits can AI bring? Use cases seem to be emerging daily from many different business departments, but arguably, its HR teams that should be sitting up and taking notice more than others.

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As AI is used more often for several purposes, issues of bias -- often injected unintentionally -- have become more apparent. On a broad level, bias tends to stereotype people. Customers should have useful and positive experiences with AI, but sometimes, these unexpected biases can sour that interaction, leaving customers feeling frustrated or marginalized. As customer service drives customer loyalty, and loyalty drives revenue, this can negatively impact the business as a whole.

Bias in AI can manifest itself in many ways. A sizable percentage of executives polled by Speechmatics found that voice-recognition software struggled to understand some voices.

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Art imitates life, that we all know. But what if art imitates your personal life, your personal likeness and does it so well that the line between what is real and surreal blurs?

Unbeknownst to us, we are becoming models for state-of-the-art AI technology that trains on terabytes of poorly filtered data scraped from all over the web. This data can include our personal photos, medical images, and even copyrighted content -- basically, anything ever posted online.

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