Targeting AI

The biggest global retailer sees itself as a tech giant.

And with 25,000 engineers and its own software ecosystem, Walmart isn't waiting to see how GenAI technology will play out.

The company is already providing its employees -- referred to by the retailer as associates -- with in-house GenAI tools such as the My Assistant conversational chatbot.

Associates can use the consumer-grade ChatGPT-like tool to frame a press release, wri...

While Apple garnered wide attention for its recent embrace of generative AI for iPhones and Macs, rival end point device maker Lenovo already had a similar strategy in place.

The multinational consumer products vendor, based in China, is known for its ThinkPad line of laptops and for mobile phones made by its Motorola subsidiary.

But Lenovo also has for a few years been advancing a “pocket to cloud” approach to computing. That stra...

The rise of generative AI has also brought renewed interest and growth in open source technology. But the question of open source is still "open" in generative AI.

Sometimes, the code is open -- other times, the training data and weights are open.

A leader in the open source large language model arena is Meta. However, despite the popularity of the social media's giant's Llama family of large language models (LLMs), some say Meta's...

In intellectual tech circles, a debate over artificial general intelligence and the AI future is raging. 

Dan Faggella is in the middle of this highly charged discussion, arguing on various platforms that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be here sooner than many people think, and it will likely take the place of human civilization. 

"It is most likely, in my opinion, that should we have AGI, it won't follow too long from ...

Salesforce was an early adopter of generative AI, seizing on large language model technology from OpenAI to integrate into its own applications.

But the CRM and CX giant quickly evolved an open model strategy. It now gives customers access to multiple third-party LLMs while providing its own AI trust layer to try to ensure that Salesforce users can safely rely on AI-generated outputs.

Jayesh Govindarajan, senior vice president at S...

The explosive popularity of generative AI has been accompanied by the question of whether developers are finding great uses for the new technology.

While the hype around GenAI has grown, the perception of its usefulness for developers has changed.

"Developers are eager to kind of embrace AI more into their complex tasks, but not for every part, and they're not open to the same degree," GitHub researcher Eirini Kalliamvakou said on ...

The growth of generative AI technology has led to concerns about the data AI technology companies use to train their systems.

Authors, journalists and now musicians have accused generative AI vendors of using copyrighted material to train large language models.

More than 200 musicians signed an open letter released Tuesday by the Artists Rights Alliance calling on AI developers to stop their "assault on human creativity."

While the...

From bias to hallucinations, it is apparent that generative AI models are far from perfect and present risks.

Most recently, tech giants -- notably Google -- have run into trouble after their models made egregious mistakes that reflect the inherent problem with the data sets upon which large language models (LLMs) are based.

Microsoft faced criticism when its models from partner OpenAI generated disturbing images of monsters and wo...

AI hardware and software provider SambaNova Systems seeks to put enterprise customers in charge of their data while using open source models.

A smaller competitor of AI hardware vendor Nvidia, the AI vendor is trying to distinguish itself by helping enterprises train and deploy large models that they can't train on Nvidia's systems.

"What we try to focus on is how do we actually create a hardware platform that allows these companie...

Generative AI vendors and investors have turned their attention from last year's innovative frenzy to ROI, monetizing the language models that have revolutionized the tech world in a short time.

That's the outlook on 2024 from Kashyap Kompella, founder and analyst at RPA2AI Research, who was a guest on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Editorial.

"If we think about it, 2023 really was the year of shock and awe for AI technol...

The fear of AI technology eliminating thousands of jobs or affecting the hiring process continues to prevail in the age of generative AI.

While many believe that AI technology will augment workers, some are already seeing the effect of AI in the job market. Indeed, tech companies and other large enterprises have laid off thousands of workers in recent months, though staffing levels are mostly still higher than before the COVID-19 p...

Data labeling and annotation vendor Sama seeks to make an impact not only in the tech market but also in parts of the world where it's hard for people to partake in the digital economy.

As a women-led B Corporation chartered to do social and environmental good, Sama employs numerous people in countries such as Kenya and has created, said CEO Wendy Gonzalez on the latest episode of the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Editorial....

In the age of generative AI, Microsoft has become one of the lead investors after its massive investment in ChatGPT creator OpenAI.

Since Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the AI market has seen changes including a tilt toward smaller and open source AI language models. Meanwhile, the tech giant's venture fund, M12, (which did not take part in the tech giant's deal with OpenAI) is still keeping its eye out for other AI ...

When Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner started working on their book, The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, generative AI had not yet exploded into the public consciousness.

But after OpenAI released its blockbuster AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in October 2022, the co-authors went back to revise their narrative to accommodate the sudden emergence of a transformative force in business and society, one that needs guidelines ...

With 2023 being the year for generative AI, 2024 will be the year the technology grows and develops.

Many industry experts think that instead of the hype slowing, it will blossom.

"In 2024, there will not be a trough of disillusionment with this tech, ever," said Mike Leone, an analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group, on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Editorial. "We're jumping from hype to seeing productivity en...

Wide use of autonomous vehicles is far off in the hazy future.

But truck and "last-mile" delivery van fleets serving online shoppers are already using advanced AI technology to guide drivers to their destinations safely.

As Stefan Heck, CEO of Nauto, vendor of an AI-powered driver and fleet safety system, explained it on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget News, Nauto uses the same driving tools as autonomous vehicles, but lea...

Wayfair's machine learning strategy has been critical to its growth.

The online furniture retailer's machine learning and AI journey started in 2013.

"It was about 'We think we can do better business, make our dollars go longer if we actually optimize this toolkit,'" said Tulia Plumettaz, Wayfair's director of machine learning, during the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget News.

Wayfair started with putting machine learning techn...

The tech industry is dealing with the implications of an executive order on AI signed by President Joe Biden Oct. 30.

The order aims to establish new standards for AI safety and security, while protecting the privacy of American citizens, promoting innovation and spurring development of responsible AI.

"It's really looking at developing guidelines and best practices really across the whole field," said Katherine Hendrickson, a se...

The success of an AI startup depends on not only the technology and the problem the startup seeks to solve within the market, but also the support it has from investors and venture capital firms.

One venture capital (VC) firm that prides itself on working closely with the founders of startups is Glasswing Ventures.

As an early VC firm, Glasswing is focused on investing in AI-enabled companies and what it calls "frontier tech" B2B c...