Targeting AI

A key truth about AI is that regulation has long lagged innovation. However, this has not removed the responsibility of enterprises to deploy AI systems responsibly or for AI vendors to create responsible systems. What are the key metrics to understanding a safe AI system?

Featuring: Stuart Battersby, CTO at Chatterbox Labs, vendor of a quantitative AI risk metrics platform, and Danny Coleman, CEO at Chatterbox.

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Industrial AI is less familiar than consumer AI, but represents a critical and growing sector within AI’s influence. What unique AI applications are surfacing in this area?

Featuring: Olympia Brikis, director of Industrial AI research at Siemens

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• Understanding Industrial AI and its distinctions from consumer AI

Traditional, generative, agentic—in the past couple of decades, AI metamorphosed into an indisposable tool for enterprises wanting to streamline their processes and improve their impact. In this episode, we dive into the different types of AI, best practices for implementation, and the challenges faced in the industry.

Featuring: Deepak Singh, Vice President at AWS

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In the couple of years since the popularization of ChatGPT, generative AI technology has quickly taken hold in the legal profession.

It has backfired in some cases, such as when an attorney filed a legal brief written with ChatGPT's help and the AI platform hallucinated some of the cases in the brief. That case and others have led some law firms to block general access to AI tools. Most recently, Hill Dickinson, a law firm in the U...

Without a good data strategy, generative AI becomes unusable technology for enterprises.

This was true when ChatGPT started becoming popular, and it is even more accurate years later.

The most recent example is the AI Chinese startup DeepSeek. While most AI cloud providers like Google, AWS and Microsoft now offer the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, many AI experts believe that enterprises might be hesitant to use it due to the data it...

While some vendors are working to ensure large language models become better at reasoning, other AI vendors are making them compatible in multiple languages.

Writer is a provider of a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises.

While the vendor provides a generative AI platform that enterprises can use to build generative AI capabilities into their workflows, it also offers a family of LLMs: Palmyra. The models support text ...

The contact center world is a difficult place, packed with frustration and stress.

Digital communications giant Cisco sees its mission as easing that experience for human contact center workers and the customers they deal with every day.

For that undertaking, the vendor has seized on generative AI and agentic AI as the vehicles to both automate and augment the work of humans, in essence, smartening up the traditional chatbots that ...

Box has been in the AI game for a long time.

But when generative AI mushroomed into a transformative force in the tech world, the cloud content management vendor opted to turn to specialists in the new and fast-growing technology to power the arsenal of tools in its platform.

"We've been doing AI for many years. But the really cool thing that happened … AI got to the point where the generative AI models understood content," said Be...

This is the year of AI agents.

The last few months of 2024 brought much talk about and expectations for AI agents that can operate autonomously and semi-autonomously. Many vendors have capitalized on the enthusiasm to introduce new agentic products: Salesforce came out with Agentforce, and Microsoft introduced Copilot agents.

With 2025 here, questions about whether the momentum on agents will continue. Some see the agentic hype, an...

The AI application startup, which was founded in 2016 and was valued at more than $2.1 billion in 2021, uses a reasoning engine to help employees search for information across the enterprise.

Since its inception, a key ingredient in the company's success has been AI and generative AI technology.

"We were the first company after Google to deploy BERT in production," said co-founder and president Varun Singh on the latest episode of ...

When generative AI became the next big thing in tech, enterprise software giant Oracle bet heavily on a startup to provide it with foundation and large language models rather than scramble to develop its own.

That then-fledgling company was Cohere. Founded in 2019, the generative AI vendor raised $270 million in a Series C round, and its investors included Oracle, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and some private equity firms. In July,...

At the beginning of the wave of generative AI hype, many feared that generative models would replace the jobs of creatives like artists and photographers.

With generative AI models such as Dall-E and Midjourney seemingly creating unique works of art and images, some artists found themselves at a disadvantage. Some say the generative systems took their artwork, copied it and used it to produce their own images. In some cases, the ge...

President-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign offered clues about how his administration would handle the fast-growing AI sector.

One thing is clear: AI, to the extent that it is regulated, is headed for deregulation.

"It's likely going to mean less regulation for the AI industry," said Makenzie Holland, senior news writer at TechTarget Editorial covering tech regulation and compliance, on the Targeting AI podcast. "Bei...

When Candace Mitchell was young, she discovered a love for computers and haircare. Her interest in technology led her to study coding in high school, leading her to build websites.

Meanwhile, she also considered going to cosmetology school.

She found a middle ground in beauty technology, later becoming co-founder and CEO of Myavana, a Black-owned beauty technology vendor. Myavana uses AI technology to analyze hair strands and make ...

Open source AI models are closing the gap in the debate between open and closed models.

Since the introduction of Meta Llama generative AI models in February 2023, more enterprises have started to run their AI applications on open source models.

Cloud providers like Google have also noticed this shift and have accommodated enterprises by introducing models from open source vendors such as Mistral AI and Meta. At the same time, prop...

Nearly two years after the mass consumerization of generative AI with the introduction of ChatGPT, the technology is now moving from experimentation to implementation.

A recent survey by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group found that generative AI adoption is growing. The analyst firm surveyed 832 professionals worldwide and found that adoption has increased in the last year.

"We're in the acceleration phase," said Mark Beccue, ...

As one of the top cloud providers, Google Cloud also stands at the forefront of the generative AI market.

Over the past two years, Google has been enmeshed in a push and pull with its chief competitors -- AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI -- in the race to dominate generative AI.

Google has introduced a slate of new generative AI products in the past year, including its main proprietary large language model (LLM), Gemini and the Vertex AI ...

The growth of generative AI has put diversity front and center. 

In the last year, there have been concerns that GenAI systems such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini are not trained with enough diverse data sets. 

For instance, the introduction of the Lensa app two years ago allowed people of color to generate avatars of themselves. Concerns were raised, however, after some users said Lensa's generated images changed their skin color. 

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The growth of deepfakes in the past few years is a threat to not only organizations but also the U.S. general election in November.

Information security vendor Pindrop saw a sharp rise in deepfakes in the first few months of the year compared to the previous year.

Deepfakes of Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and state-level candidates have circulated in the runup to the November U.S....