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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?

CIO Business Intelligence

When Diminishing Returns Become Budget Busters For years enterprises scrambled to build applications in public cloud environments; there was legitimate business value in rapid innovation, deployment and scalability, as well as unfettered access to more geographical regions. Smart Workload Placement is Key Meill is right.

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Generative AI: now is the time to ‘learn by doing’

CIO Business Intelligence

This time, generative AI applications will become ubiquitous and indispensable machines that just about everyone uses to do things on their behalf. The only question at hand is whether any given organization, yours included, stands out as being particularly good or bad by comparison.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Business applications for conversational AI have, for several years already, included help desks and service desks.

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Interview: Microsoft President Brad Smith supports plan for AI ‘safety brakes’ in U.S. Senate hearing

GeekWire

Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, drew that comparison Tuesday in his testimony before the U.S. But it should be for those kinds of applications that are most powerful and most impactful on people’s rights, that could create higher risk. We should applaud when the government works that way.

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Security Experts Assess 2.0 Draft of NIST Cybersecurity Framework

SecureWorld News

Michael Gregg, CISO, State of North Dakota: " One of the things that most excites me about the new framework is the addition of the 'govern' function. Leader, Government Strategy, Policy, & Partnerships, Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud : "Mandiant is pleased to see the draft version of NIST's CSF 2.0, Stacy O'Mara, Sr.

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Here’s why Amazon relaxed its marijuana standards, according to industry experts and lawyers

GeekWire

When Leafly and Headset co-founder Cy Scott heard the news about Amazon relaxing its marijuana testing standards for job applicants while backing federal legalization efforts, two thoughts immediately came to mind: Amazon needs people. (GeekWire Illustration). Amazon wants market share. Should the existing cannabis industry be concerned?

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AT&T vs. Verizon - A Mobile Broadband Speed Test - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. I loaded the same application on both devices, Speedtest.Net speed checker. I used the same server in Washington DC for the test (suggested by the application). Poorly Designed Applications. Newer Post. Older Post.

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