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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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Nvidia points to the future of AI hardware

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However, CIOs looking for computing power needed to train AIs for specific uses, or to run huge AI projects will likely see value in the Blackwell project. As AI models get larger, they’ll require more performance for training and inferencing, the process that a trained AI uses to draw conclusions from new data, he says.

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How Starlink transformed tech operations for Journey Beyond

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The launch of satellite internet provider Starlink has been operationally transformative for Journey Beyond, one of Australia’s premier destination tourism companies, and it’s driving a new era of progress and innovation. Journey Beyond’s biggest investment is in rail, owning and operating four luxury trains that transverse the continent.

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Three predictions for AI and automation business adoption

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But that’s about to change, said Fleming, as executive leadership seeks to understand how AI and automation benefit the bottom line. But by next year, leadership will ask hard questions, such as: ‘How much will it cost to integrate Gen AI into our business?’ Hardware spending will drive up the cost of AI adoption,” said Fleming. “So

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. “Is He also recommends tapping the open-source community for models that can be pre-trained for various tasks. “All

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

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Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. Apple actually released not just the code, but also the model weights, the training data set, training logs, and pre-training configurations.

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CIO Bhavani Amirthalingam on driving change in the AI era

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Bhavani Amirthalingam’s career spans more than 25 years in key technology and executive leadership roles across a multitude of industries and geographies. The time required to train algorithms with quality data is substantial but necessary for achieving desired outcomes at scale. Leaders should view data quality as a strategic asset.