IBM aims to breakdown barriers to AI adoption
IBM is unveiling a set of new AI capabilities that aim to reduce some of the top barriers to AI adoption and drive down the cost and time investment it currently takes to build and implement AI applications.
The expansion to its embeddable AI software portfolio sees the release of three new libraries designed to help IBM Ecosystem partners, clients and developers more easily, quickly and cost-effectively build their own AI-powered solutions and bring them to market.
AIOps of the future: Building confidence in your brand
Technology dominates just about every sphere of modern-day society. If you are like most, you see it in your everyday lives. We increasingly buy online, with U.S. retail e-commerce sales now totaling $768 billion. Likewise, we increasingly work online, with 58 percent of Americans, or 92 million people, now telecommuting at least once a week.
For the most part, online consumers and remote workers take the technology behind their personal and professional activities for granted. We need groceries, so we open a grocery app, fill our virtual carts, check out and -- voilà -- the order is at our door in just a few hours. We apply the same expectations to remote work tools and, well, just about every technology we encounter throughout the day. It should just… work.
Hit the snooze button farmers: The huge potential of applying AI to agriculture
A custom smart farming system can help gather valuable data, provide actionable outcomes, and save farmers significant time, money, and resources.
In recent years, a significant number of agriculture businesses have considered moving from human-reliant farming to autonomous farm management systems. The growing trust between agribusinesses and technology companies, as well as a rich arsenal of technologies that can accommodate the needs of farms, are the two major factors that enable this transformation.
How Kubernetes and AI will combine to deliver next-gen services [Q&A]
The popularity of Kubernetes has led to its rapid adoption, but as with any advanced technology, the benefits come alongside challenges.
Being able to take full advantage of the technology means understanding what it can offer and how it fits with other developments like artificial intelligence. We spoke to Tobi Knaup, CEO of independent Kubernetes platform D2iQ, to find out about the current state of Kubernetes and what it promises for the future.
UK sees boost in AI adoption
Use of AI technology in the UK has stepped up since 2016, with 41 percent of companies adopting AI between 2016 and 2019, compared to just a fifth over six years ago.
A new study from Peak shows this puts the UK above the global average of 39 percent for this period, though it's since dropped back closer to the average, and represents an almost fourfold rise in the last ten years, compared to just 2.5 times in the US and three times in India.
AI is nothing without skilled human oversight
Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains hard to define. When it comes to a definition of "intelligence", context is vital and it starts with what we want the AI system to do. It is specific to the application. For example, intelligence for a search engine shouldn’t be the same as intelligence for an autonomous vehicle.
Now, with AI systems already in widespread production for more than a quarter of enterprises, businesses must ensure that employees are upskilled to effectively define and implement AI systems, and understand how to manage these systems safely in the workplace. But what does that look like in practice?
How AI enables organizations to move from network monitoring to proactive observability
In today’s world, the volume of data and network bandwidth requirements are growing relentlessly. So much is happening in real-time as businesses adapt and advance to become more digital, which means the state of the network is constantly evolving. Meanwhile, users have high expectations around applications -- quick loading times, look and feel visually advanced, with feature-rich content, video streaming, and multimedia capabilities -- all of these devour network bandwidth.
With millions of users accessing applications and mobile apps from multiple devices, most companies today generate seemingly unmanageable volumes of data and traffic on their networks.
How AI and computer vision can help retailers to compete [Q&A]
The rise of online retail coupled with the pandemic have brought about some unprecedented changes to the retail landscape in recent years.
But as consumers now start to venture back into stores, how can retailers make use of technology to effectively compete with their online counterparts and with other brick-and-mortar businesses?
AIOps needs a new (customer-focused) approach
IT infrastructure has become incredibly complicated -- intensified by the investment in digital transformations encouraged by the pandemic. One of the unintended consequences? IT teams and incident responders are stressed, and stretched farther than ever. PagerDuty’s The State of Digital Operations lays out the increased burden on these teams, the results in terms of burnout, and the impact having a more mature digital operations can have on minimizing that stress.
AIOps is an essential component to any mature digital organization, and it’s clear a new approach is needed. The sheer volume of IT events, from changes, warnings and incidents, to tickets for more routine activity are increasing 70 percent year-on-year. At a moment when increases in budgets won’t keep pace with the explosion of incidents or the complexity of IT infrastructure (if the budgets aren’t being reduced outright), leveraging AIOps to serve teams and customers is critical.
Almost half of businesses are struggling with cloud costs
A new report published today by business monitoring firm Anodot reveals 49 percent of businesses find it difficult to get cloud costs under control, and 54 percent believe their primary source of cloud waste is a lack of visibility into cloud usage.
The report, based on a survey of over 130 US-based IT directors and executives, shows 91 percent of respondents report they currently have IT infrastructure in the cloud, while 60 percent say that migrating more workloads to the cloud is their top cloud initiative in the coming year.
Windows 12 wallpapers created by AI -- download them now
Windows 11 hasn’t been with us very long, but you’ve probably seen reports that Microsoft is already working on its successor, Windows 12.
While there aren’t any screenshots, or anything else, to view of Windows 12 just yet, we asked an AI text-to-image tool to give us its take on what the future operating system might look like.
AI-based security solution protects email and messaging
With more people working remotely, messaging and email have become even more essential tools, but the sharing of sensitive data via these routes also presents risks.
Concentric AI is using this week's Black Hat USA to launch an AI-based solution that protects sensitive data shared as text or attachments across today’s most popular business messaging platforms, including email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Five ways AI can influence and transform your business processes
Technology is constantly changing the way we work, and automation is something business owners will be keeping an eye on in the future. This is definitely the case with artificial intelligence, with the global market for AI predicted to reach $267 billion by 2027.
Film and media have warned us that if AI becomes too intelligent, it will take over, and these concerns have fed into real-life fears about technology replacing humans. One study found that around 68.5 percent of college graduates thought that technology would render them useless or lose their job to it in the near future. However, AI can aid human connections and collaborations and benefit the world of business.
The three AI technologies powering checkout-free retail
Checkout-free shopping is revolutionizing the retail space, cutting down on time wasted in line and improving customer experience while shopping. Though the idea of checkout-free technology powering your shopping trips may seem like a far-off technology, it actually utilizes three established technological components that work together to provide a smooth and frictionless shopping experience.
Each of these technologies, deep learning, sensor fusion, and computer vision, work synergistically to make futuristic-seeming technology part of our everyday lives.
The artificial intelligence tug-of-war in the world of cybersecurity [Q&A]
It's a rare cybersecurity product these days that doesn't claim to have some form of AI capability. But exactly what benefits does AI deliver? And is there a risk of an arms race as threat actors also turn to the technology?
We spoke to Corey Nachreiner, CSO at WatchGuard Technologies, to find out more about the role of AI in cybersecurity.
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