Technologists

Simply stated: less coding and development work, and more focus on the business. We've heard this prediction many times over the past couple of decades, but AI seems to be effectively picking up the slack of heads-down programming. "The time spent doing non-value-added work to create software -- like searching through internal knowledge systems -- will be sped up through AI, so engineers can focus on more high-value tasks," says Jonny LeRoy, chief technology officer at Grainger. For example, he relates, "Grainger's…

As the automotive/mobility industry climbs a new learning curve on at least a few fronts, the 4th ETAuto Tech Summit became a solid forum where industry stalwarts and professionals shared/exchanged knowledge and ideas, to get empowered to be able to steer the industry to a robust and sustainable future. With around 500 participants from all realms of the industry, technology and academic institutions, the 2-day Summit was an absolutely busy affair flooding minds with…

A wide-ranging coalition of more than 500 technologists, engineers, and AI ethicists have signed an open letter calling on AI labs to immediately pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s recently released GPT-4 for at least six months. The signatories, which include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and “based AI” developer Elon Musk, warn these advanced new AI models could pose “profound risks to society and humanity,” if allowed to advance without sufficient safeguards. If companies refuse to pause…

As the lead Image Reads; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was written over 2 decades ago.In 1996, Congress implemented provisions that served to protect social media platforms from legal liability for third-party content i.e content posted by users of the platform.Section 230 is divided into two important subsections: 230 ( c ) ( 1 ) - No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.…

By Cade Metz, The New York Times Company SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past five years, Andrey Doronichev has shared his four-story town house with nearly 100 entrepreneurs, investors and other aspiring technologists from countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. Because they spoke Russian, they thought they had a private key that could unlock resources most Silicon Valley technologists could not. As investors, they had the inside track on startups in Kyiv. As entrepreneurs, they could hire engineers in Moscow or…

Healthcare has been at the epicenter of everything we do for two years. While the pandemic has been a significant driver of the conversation, healthcare technology—artificial intelligence (AI) specifically—has been experiencing explosive growth. One only needs to look at the funding landscape: more than 40 startups have raised at least $20 million in funding specifically to build AI solutions for healthcare applications. But what’s driving this growth? The venture capital trail alone won’t help us understand the trends…