What else do we want or need CSS to do? Chris kept a CSS wishlist, going back as far as 2013 and following back up on it in 2019. We all have things we’d like to see CSS do and we always will no matter how…
Steve Herne, CEO at Unlearn – Interview Series
Steve Herne is a distinguished professional with over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical research and development industry. Throughout his career, he has held leadership roles at notable companies such as WCG, Bioclinica, ERT, Icon Development Solutions, Covance, MDS Pharma Services, and Inveresk Research. In…
How AI Will Keep People Fed Amid Agriculture’s Turmoil
Before the tractor was invented, farmers worked their land tirelessly alongside beasts of burden such as horses and mules that required six acres of land for feed, per animal, each year. Fearing change, job replacement, or cost, farm owners didn’t exactly rejoice and were generally skeptical…
How Neurosymbolic AI Can Fix Generative AI’s Reliability Issues
Generative AI has made impressive strides in recent years. It can write essays, create art, and even compose music. But when it comes to getting facts right, it often falls short. It might confidently tell you that zebras live underwater or that the Eiffel Tower is…
Amazon doubles Anthropic investment to $8B
Amazon has announced an additional $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing the company’s total commitment to $8 billion, part of its expanding artificial intelligence strategy. The investment was announced on November 22, 2024 and strengthens Amazon’s position in the AI sector, building on its established cloud…
CrowdStrike: Cybersecurity pros want safer, specialist GenAI tools
CrowdStrike commissioned a survey of 1,022 cybersecurity professionals worldwide to assess their views on generative AI (GenAI) adoption and its implications. The findings reveal enthusiasm for GenAI’s potential to bolster defences against increasingly sophisticated threats, but also trepidation over risks such as data exposure and attacks…
All About Frame Rates for Shooting and Editing Video
Here’s pretty much everything you need to know about frames rates when it comes to both shooting and editing videos. Fortunately these days the whole argument for various frame rates being used for different purposes has settled down into an uneasy truce. Having said that it…
The Elusive Definition of ‘Deepfake’
A compelling new study from Germany critiques the EU AI Act’s definition of the term ‘deepfake’ as overly vague, particularly in the context of digital image manipulation. The authors argue that the Act’s emphasis on content resembling real people or events – yet potentially appearing fake…
Meta’s COCONUT: The AI Method That Thinks Without Language
When researchers first discovered that large language models (LLMs) could “think” step by step through chain-of-thought prompting, it was a breakthrough moment – finally, we could peek into the reasoning process of these black boxes. But what if I told you that making AI models think…
CFOs Should Embrace Gen AI’s Potential and Encourage Innovation, Not Obsess Over Its Cost or Likely Scale of Impact
The breathless publicity surrounding Gen-AI often makes it difficult for CFOs to avoid the conventional approach of obsessing about the costs of Gen-AI adoption or its likely scale of impact in the near-term. However, I believe the time has come for CFOs to break with convention…