Why Canadian provinces, territories need to regulate AI
The use of artificial intelligence in Canada’s federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments has to be regulated as much as its use in the private sector, a conference on AI in the public sector has been told. However, Stephen Toope,…
Tutorial: How To Make and Share Custom GPTs
The realm of artificial intelligence is continually expanding, introducing groundbreaking tools that transform how we interact with technology. Among these innovations, custom Generative Pre-trained Transformers, commonly known as GPTs, have emerged as a fascinating development. These AI models, which go…
More work needed to blunt public’s AI privacy concerns: Report
Organizations aren’t making much progress in convincing the public their data is being used responsibly in artificial intelligence applications, a new survey suggests. The report, Cisco Systems’ seventh annual data privacy benchmark study, was released Thursday in conjunction with Data…
Sovereign AI: Nations Investing Billions in Homegrown AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms various aspects of human society, such as the economy, health, education, security, and culture. As AI becomes more powerful and pervasive, many nations invest heavily in building their own AI capabilities and ecosystems, aiming to gain…
Evaluating Large Language Models: A Technical Guide
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and LLaMA have exploded in popularity. Thanks to their ability to generate impressively human-like text, these AI systems are now being used for everything from content creation to customer service chatbots. But how…
Navigating the Misinformation Era: The Case for Data-Centric Generative AI
In the digital era, misinformation has emerged as a formidable challenge, especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As generative AI models become increasingly integral to content creation and decision-making, they often rely on open-source databases like Wikipedia for…
The Future of Serverless Inference for Large Language Models
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, PaLM have led to transformative capabilities in natural language tasks. LLMs are being incorporated into various applications such as chatbots, search engines, and programming assistants. However, serving LLMs at scale remains…
Booming data analytics and AI exacerbating tech talent shortage: Survey
Nearly 77 per cent of data professionals in Canada believe that the shortage of tech talent will continue throughout 2024, a new survey by Toronto-based IT consultancy firm Adastra found. This is mainly because of the accelerated adoption of data…
Breaking Down the O’Reilly 2024 Tech Trends Report
In the swiftly evolving landscape of technology, keeping pace with the latest trends is vital for anyone in the industry. The O’Reilly 2024 Tech Trends Report emerges as a crucial guide in this endeavor, offering a comprehensive overview of the…
Global ransomware threat expected to rise with AI, U.K. cyber authority warns
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to increase the global ransomware threat over the next two years, U.K. cyber chiefs have warned in a new report published today by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The report, entitled The near-term impact…
Visual Instruction Tuning for Pixel-Level Understanding with Osprey
With the recent enhancement of visual instruction tuning methods, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable general-purpose vision-language capabilities. These capabilities make them key building blocks for modern general-purpose visual assistants. Recent models, including MiniGPT-4, LLaVA, InstructBLIP, and others,…
AI adoption in Canada rising, but upskilling remains top barrier: IBM
AI adoption among large organizations has remained steady globally, while Canada saw an uptick from 34 per cent in April 2023 to 37 per cent in November 2023, a new study by IBM Canada found. The company surveyed over 2,000…
Global tech spend set to grow a healthy 5.3% in 2024, says Forrester
Technology companies faced a difficult 2023 due to a range of issues, but this year looks far brighter, new findings from Forrester Research reveal. Forrester is predicting that, after last year, where the overall technology spend growth reached only 3.9…
Coffee Briefing Jan. 23 – FedDev Ontario supports ventureLAB; Telus’s new plan for low-income seniors; Intuit says Canadians do not want financial advisors to be replaced by AI; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. FedDev Ontario invests $4.5 million in ventureLAB’s Hardware…
A Guide to Mastering Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity over the last few years, revolutionizing natural language processing and AI. From chatbots to search engines to creative writing aids, LLMs are powering cutting-edge applications across industries. However, building useful LLM-based products…
AlphaGeometry: How DeepMind’s AI Masters Geometry Problems at Olympian Levels?
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the conquest of cognitive abilities has been a fascinating journey. Mathematics, with its intricate patterns and creative problem-solving, stands as a testament to human intelligence. While recent advancements in language models have excelled…
Drilling down into the impact AI is having on data centres, climate change
Lost in all of the hype around how artificial intelligence (AI) advances are going to change everything from how people work to how they function is just how much electrical power it will take to make this happen, and, equally…
Most enterprises still at beginning of their AI journeys: Report
Talk about the endless possibilities and impact of artificial intelligence is rampant, yet a new report by Everest Group shows that the majority of enterprises (83 per cent) are currently only testing the capabilities of AI through pilot programs, or…
Samsung launches AI-powered Galaxy S24 series
For the first half hour of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event Wednesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was a software launch, as speaker after speaker touted Galaxy AI, the company’s new set of artificial intelligence (AI) tools driving…
Paint3D : Lighting-Less Diffusion Model for Image Generation
The rapid development of AI Generative models, especially deep generative AI models, has significantly advanced capabilities in natural language generation, 3D generation, image generation, and speech synthesis. These models have revolutionized 3D production across various industries. However, many face a…
Unlearning Copyrighted Data From a Trained LLM – Is It Possible?
In the domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), large language models (LLMs) showcase both achievements and challenges. Trained on vast textual datasets, LLM models encapsulate human language and knowledge. Yet their ability to absorb and mimic human…
A Q&A with Rubrik CEO and venture capitalist Bipul Sinha
Bipul Sinha did not become a successful entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist by following staid career moves and adhering to traditional business strategies or pursuing cool ideas. Instead, taking the opposite approach has allowed him to profitably carve out a…
Should the CIO be solely responsible for keeping AI in check? Info-Tech weighs in
In a recent webinar, research director at Info-Tech Research Group Brian Jackson explained how he thought it was surprising that IT workers think that the CIO should be solely responsible for AI. The next most popular answer after that, he…
Innovation in Synthetic Data Generation: Building Foundation Models for Specific Languages
Synthetic data, artificially generated to mimic real data, plays a crucial role in various applications, including machine learning, data analysis, testing, and privacy protection. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), synthetic data proves invaluable for enhancing training sets, particularly in low-resource…
Coffee Briefing Jan. 16 – Thomson Reuters acquires majority stake of Pagero; Toronto non profit announces new digital literacy program; IBM and SAP team up; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Thomson Reuters acquires majority stake of Sweden’s Pagero…
How Single-View 3D Reconstruction Works?
Traditionally, models for single-view object reconstruction built on convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable performance in reconstruction tasks. In recent years, single-view 3D reconstruction has emerged as a popular research topic in the AI community. Irrespective of the specific methodology…
Accenture presents its “Human by Design” 2024 tech vision, reassures on potential job losses
Artificial intelligence (AI) will become much more human-like and intuitive for people to use, Accenture highlighted in its 2024 Technology Vision report titled “Human by Design.” The report also revealed that generative AI has the potential to impact 44 per…
CES 2024: Why the AI PC? Intel’s Pat Gelsinger makes a case
The AI PC democratizes access to artificial intelligence in ways that are unprecedented and kind of exciting. Intel’s chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger asserted last night during a talk at CES 2024. The company said last month during the launch…
Future-Ready Enterprises: The Crucial Role of Large Vision Models (LVMs)
What are Large Vision Models (LVMs) Over the last few decades, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has experienced rapid growth, resulting in significant changes to various aspects of human society and business operations. AI has proven to be useful…
PowerInfer: Fast Large Language Model Serving with a Consumer-grade GPU
Due to their exceptional content creation capabilities, Generative Large Language Models are now at the forefront of the AI revolution, with ongoing efforts to enhance their generative abilities. However, despite rapid advancements, these models require substantial computational power and resources….
AI-Powered Development: Locofy.ai’s Answer to the Global Tech Challenge
In 2024, as the tech industry grapples with a critical shortage of software developers, Locofy.ai, a visionary company based in Singapore, emerges as a game-changer in the realm of frontend development. Founded in 2021 by Honey Mittal and Sohaib Muhammad,…
Ferret: Refer and Ground at Any Granularity
Enabling spatial understanding in vision-language learning models remains a core research challenge. This understanding underpins two crucial capabilities: grounding and referring. Referring enables the model to accurately interpret the semantics of specific regions, while grounding involves using semantic descriptions to…
Impact of HPE’s US$14 billion buy of Juniper huge: Dell’Oro Group
Describing it as a “tectonic shift” for the networking industry, industry analyst Mauricio Sanchez has predicted that yesterday’s US$14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks by HPE will clearly extend the latter’s reach into distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack protection…
A look back at Quantum in 2023
The field of quantum sciences is booming and has been prominent in the media throughout 2023. With the year coming to an end, let’s look back at what has happened in the last twelve months in the quantum field in…
Unpacking Yolov8: Ultralytics’ Viral Computer Vision Masterpiece
Up until now, object detection in images using computer vision models faced a major roadblock of a few seconds of lag due to processing time. This delay hindered practical adoption in use cases like autonomous driving. However, the YOLOv8 computer…
Mind2Web AI Agent Expands Accessibility to Internet
In an era where the internet is intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, digital accessibility has taken a significant leap forward. Researchers at The Ohio State University are at the forefront of this endeavor, developing an artificial intelligence…
Leaders looking for a unified, built-in governance of data and AI: MIT report
Sixty per cent of organizations say a single approach to governance of data and AI assets is “very important”, a new report by MIT Technology Review Insights revealed. This indicates struggles with a siloed data architecture as well as increasing…
Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction
Single-view 3D object reconstruction with convolutional networks have demonstrated remarkable capabilities. Single-view 3D reconstruction models generate the 3D model of any object using a single image as the reference, making it one of the hottest topics of research in computer…
NIST issues cybersecurity guide for AI developers
No foolproof method exists so far for protecting artificial intelligence systems from misdirection, warns an American standards body, and AI developers and users should be wary of any who claim otherwise. The caution comes from the U.S. National Institute of…
Coffee Briefing Jan. 9 – NuEnergy and Communitech team up; New CEO at telMAX; Toronto company launches accessible AI-powered translation solution; and more
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How AI and machine learning solutions drive value for financial institutions
In an era where technology is reshaping industries, BMO is making waves in the financial sector through its robust artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives and machine learning technologies. A recent interview with Eric Morrow, Managing Director, Enterprise Data Science & AI,…
The Plagiarism Problem: How Generative AI Models Reproduce Copyrighted Content
The rapid advances in generative AI have sparked excitement about the technology’s creative potential. Yet these powerful models also pose concerning risks around reproducing copyrighted or plagiarized content without proper attribution. How Neural Networks Absorb Training Data Modern AI systems…
AI Acquisitions: Who’s Leading the Charge and Why?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on various sectors like healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment. This technology is reshaping business operations, demonstrating its undeniable potential to transform various industries. However, developing AI solutions is not without its challenges. It…
In surprise move, Intel, DigitalBridge launch enterprise GenAI firm
Intel and global investment firm DigitalBridge Group yesterday announced the formation of Articul8 AI, an independent company offering enterprise customers what was described as a “full-stack, vertically-optimized and secure generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software platform designed to keep customer data,…
Unveiling of Large Multimodal Models: Shaping the Landscape of Language Models in 2024
As we experience the world, our senses (vision, sounds, smells) provide a diverse array of information, and we express ourselves using different communication methods, such as facial expressions and gestures. These senses and communication methods are collectively called modalities, representing…
2024 Telecom predictions: 5G, AI, sustainability and messaging trends to guide innovation
Next year, the telecommunications ecosystem will be guided by four key themes: 5G, artificial intelligence, sustainability and the messaging evolution, a report by Juniper Research identified. Further, experts weighed in on developments in the optical transport, cable and open RAN…
Coffee Briefing Jan. 2 – Ski and Snowboard Cybersecurity Conference; Federal government provides update on connectivity targets; Montreal company secures pre seed investment to fuel AI growth; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. The Ski and Snowboard CyberSecurity Conference to take…
Midjourney Plans to Introduce a Text-to-Video Model
In a significant evolution within the AI content creation landscape, Midjourney, a name synonymous with innovative image generation, is now setting its sights on the realm of video. This strategic shift marks a pivotal moment for the company, renowned for…
OpenAI predictions for 2024: Hashtag Trending Holiday Byte for December 27, 2023
TRANSCRIPT Hey, it’s Jim Love, your host of Hashtag Trending. Welcome to another edition of Holiday Bytes. There’s been a lot of chatter about what’s happening at OpenAI, driven by some postings on the OpenAI site and some items that…
StreamDiffusion: A Pipeline-level Solution for Real-time Interactive Generation
Due to its vast potential and commercialization opportunities, particularly in gaming, broadcasting, and video streaming, the Metaverse is currently one of the fastest-growing technologies. Modern Metaverse applications utilize AI frameworks, including computer vision and diffusion models, to enhance their realism….