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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. At Vuori, everything is in the cloud.

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

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That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. s enhanced “iteration on prompts” to feed scrubbed and formatted data for thousands of used cars into a DaVinci model. In this early use case, the CarMax team employed GPT 3.5’s

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Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business

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Large-scale machine learning models are at the heart of headline-grabbing technologies like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google’s LaMDA. Fox founded AssemblyAI after a 2-year stint at Cisco, where he worked on machine learning for collaboration products.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships. Select the right partnership model.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%).

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

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billion images scraped from the internet. (“LAION” stands for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, a nonprofit organization with the goal of making AI, datasets and code available to the public.) .” Mostque says that Stability AI funded the creation of LAION 5B, an open source, 250-terabyte dataset containing 5.6