Since its public debut in 2022, ChatGPT has swiftly reshaped the technological landscape and global economy. As the first widely accessible artificial intelligence (AI) tool to deliver near-human cognitive performance (from holding conversations and drafting emails to coding and conducting complex research), it has captured the attention of the general public and the business world.…
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Australian cyber scaleup Castlepoint Systems to run its data environment and prevent breaches, with its artificial intelligence (AI) technology providing oversight of complex datasets and safeguarding them from accidental or intentional leakage. The appointment marks Castlepoint’s first foray into British government work, and comes in the wake…
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In this podcast, we talk to Boris Bialek, vice-president and field chief technology officer (CTO) at MongoDB, about how artificial intelligence (AI) can help with discovery and management of unstructured data. Bialek sets out how AI can help bring together different classes of information that an organisation might hold about customers to make processes much…
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AI agents are one of the most widely deployed types of GenAI initiative in organisations today. There are many good reasons for their popularity, but they can also pose a real threat to IT security. That’s why CISOs need to be keeping a close eye on every AI agent deployed in their organisation. These might…
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of generating text that is grammatically flawless, stylistically convincing and semantically rich. While this technological leap has brought efficiency gains to journalism, education and business communication, it has also complicated the detection of misinformation. How do you identify fake news when even experts struggle to distinguish artificial intelligence (AI)-generated…
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Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer (CTO) at Ordnance Survey (OS), has a career-long passion for turning geographical data into useful insight. At the UK’s national mapping service, he’s leading the organisation’s development of next-generation geospatial technologies. Jethwa studied engineering science at the University of Oxford, where he focused on what were then considered niche areas,…
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Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society are set to roll out a generative AI (GenAI) tool that has been specifically designed for the UK finance sector. The tool, known as FinLLM, was developed in the UK by Aveni alongside the two financial services companies, with both also investing money in the firm. The large language…
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Amanda Stent was researching natural language generation (NLG) at a time when there were only around 20 people in the world working on it – Stent now heads up all things AI at Bloomberg. Stent completed a PhD in NLG at the University of Rochester in 2001, focusing on natural language generation “well before NLG…
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The software security landscape is at an interesting juncture. As Jen Easterly, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), pointed out, there is a lesson to be drawn from the automotive industry of the 1960s. Its approach to improving car safety by building better designs – including seatbelts, crumple zones, and…
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All industries are facing a growing skills gap that is blocking them from effectively implementing artificial intelligence (AI), but this gap is deepest in the public sector, with 60% identifying a shortage of AI skills as their top implementation challenge, according to a study by Salesforce. In the US, federal government agencies are already being…
