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A Brief Overview of the Strengths and Weaknesses Artificial Intelligence
In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper suggests that since there are strengths and challenges for each form of AI, prudent organizations will combine these approaches for the most effective results. Certain solutions in this space combine vector databases and applications of LLMs alongside knowledge graph environs, which are …
Video Highlights: How to Integrate Generative AI Into Your Business — with Piotr Grudzień
In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Founder of Quickchat AI Piotr Grudzień who believes the key to any successful AI platform is to ensure it can be tailored to a company’s specific needs.
The Future of Computing: Harnessing Molecules for Sustainable Data Management
In this contributed article, Erfane Arwani, founder and CEO of Biomemory, discusses how molecular computing (using molecules rather than traditional silicon chips for computational tasks) could be a critical component in revolutionizing data storage, despite the exponential growth of AI.
Harnessing the Capabilities of Gen AI for Unprecedented Impact and Effortless Integration
In this contributed article, Ajay Kumar, CEO at SLK Software, discusses how generative AI provides unprecedented impact and effortless integration for the banking, insurance, and manufacturing industries. Ajay elaborates on why you need an adoption framework to successfully implement generative AI, how different categories of generative AI fit into an …
Compromising on your Data Stack? Solving Top Analytics Challenges
Organizations face more pressure than ever to be data-driven, but as economic challenges loom they are forced to do more with less with their IT budgets, making compromises with their analytics databases that end up hindering their data-driven initiatives. In this article, Exasol’s North American Business Lead, John Knieriemen, shares …
The Infrastructure behind the Outputs: Cloud and HPC Unlock the Power of AI
In this contributed article, Philip Pokorny, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Platform Solutions/Penguin Solutions at SGH, provides insights regarding the relationship between high-performance computing (HPC) and generative AI and his expert point-of-view of the growing market. The increasing momentum behind generative AI in recent months has raised the prospective capabilities …
How Are Conversational and Generative AI Tools Impacting Communication?
In this contributed article, Nate MacLeitch, CEO of QuickBlox, believes that communication is good; AI-enhanced communication is great. AI’s ability to offer services like tone assistance, quick-answer responses, real-time translation, and audio-to-text conversions facilitates collaborative efforts among professionals, patients, and customers, regardless of their background.
The Impact of Data Analytics Integration Mismatch on Business Technology Advancements
In this contributed article, April Miller, senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, believes that when professionals are aware their data sets have missing, incomplete or inaccurate values, cleaning is often their first instinct. While it is an adequate approach, it won’t result in the same benefits as proactive …
Post-Postgres: What’s Driving a Great Migration from the Iconic Database
In this contributed article, Tanya Bragin, product lead at ClickHouse, offers a thesis premised on an industry-wide shift from OLTP databases like Postgres for everything and into OLTP for certain functions and OLAP for others.
Scaling Data Quality with Computer Vision on Spatial Data
In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper discusses a number of hot topics today: computer vision, data quality, and spatial data. Computer vision is an extremely viable facet of advanced machine learning for the enterprise. Its utility for data quality is evinced from some high profile use cases. This …
Navigating the AI Landscape in 2024: Prioritizing Ground-Truth Data, Developer Enablement, and Consumer Privacy
In this contributed article, Jason Hudak, SVP of Engineering at Foursquare, explores four pivotal aspects shaping the AI landscape: the imperative role of quality ground-truth data, the proliferation of developer enablement, the renewed focus on consumer privacy in the midst of an election year, and the role LLM’s and NLP’s …
Navigating the Evolution: Transitioning from Traditional Analytics to AI
In this contributed article, Corne Nagel, Lead Data Scientist at IKASI, provides key considerations for embarking on an AI initiative and discuss how by embracing AI, organizations can unveil hidden patterns, anticipate trends, and unlock a realm of possibilities that traditional analytics could never fully capture. He also shares how …
Sony AI Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024
Our friends over at Sony AI have prepared a special set of compelling technology predictions for the year ahead. The Sony AI team is comprised of researchers and leaders with backgrounds in deep reinforcement learning, data science, law, privacy and security, and more. They each offer different perspectives on topics …
Introducing The Streaming Datalake
In this contributed article, Tom Scott, CEO of Streambased, outlines the path event streaming systems have taken to arrive at the point where they must adopt analytical use cases and looks at some possible futures in this area.
The Critical Role of Data in Solving Society’s Biggest Problems
In this contributed article, Charles Sword, Chief Revenue Officer at UpMetrics, discusses why foundations and impact investors have been dropping the ball with respect to data analytics and how they should work with the nonprofits they fund to maximize the impact they are making and effectively convey stories which illustrate …
AI Companies and Applications have a lot to Prove in 2024
In this contributed article, Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures, indicates that while there are plenty of risks for VCs in AI right now, they’re overwhelmingly outweighed by the potential benefits. As AI adoption continues to gain momentum, the task in 2024 will be making strategic investments in companies …
Looking to 2024: Data, AI and Security will be Top Priorities for Businesses
In this contributed article, Nathan Vega, Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy at Protegrity, discusses
Big Tech is Likely to Set AI Policy in the U.S. We Can’t Let That Happen
In this contributed article, Dr. Anna Becker, CEO and cofounder of Endotech.io, discusses explains why President Biden's recent executive order and approach to regulating Artificial Intelligence puts American innovation at risk, by likely favoring the views and interests of large established tech companies rather than startups.