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AI’s one true X factor: Leadership

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More recently, Tesla Chairman and founder Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and more than 1,100 people in the industry signed a petition calling for a six-month break from training artificial intelligence systems in order to allow for the development of shared safety protocols. The reality is that the AI train is leaving the station.

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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

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Reihl concedes that generative AI is evolving much faster than anything he has seen in his career, which spans nearly four decades in IT leadership roles. To address this new reality, his company’s C-suite convened to strategize after the debut of OpenAI’s GPT-4 last March. The meeting consensus?

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Paving the way for generative AI proficiency in the workplace

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When I mentioned that part of my job involves thought leadership around digital trends like generative AI, the first comment was, “Wow, you must be busy this year.” Applications like ChatGPT have become household names in the same way “to Google” has become a household verb. What should I include in the body of the message?

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What is your data strategy for an AI future?

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However, understanding what’s going on with some large language models (LLMs) in terms of how they’ve been trained, and on what data and whether the outputs can be trusted, is another matter considering the increasing rate of hallucinations. One answer to this impending problem will be an increased use of synthetic training data.

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Swiss Federal Railways CIO relies more on AI than concrete

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In terms of traffic management, the aim is to make better use of routes, in particular by reducing the distances between trains. Another example of AI use at SBB is operations management, or optimizing train path utilization. After all, the answer to the question of which train to run and where is highly complex.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working.

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

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Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.