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The Impact of Open Source on the Future of AI
No comments on The Impact of Open Source on the Future of AIIn the early decades of the IT industry, vendors brought to market proprietary networking, communications, and file systems that worked well if used within the same company or with companies using the same vendor’s architecture, but were quite difficult to use otherwise. The Internet changed all that. The adoption of open internet and email protocols…
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I often look to biology and evolution for inspiration when thinking about highly complex systems. So I was very intrigued when several weeks ago I learned about the work being done by Elemental Cognition, a company founded in 2015 by my former IBM colleague David Ferrucci. Ferrucci led the team that developed the Watson computer…
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“Blockchain is one of the major tech stories of the past decade,” said a December, 2022 McKinsey article, “What is Blockchain.” “Everyone seems to be talking about it — but beneath the surface chatter there’s not always a clear understanding of what blockchain is or how it works. Despite its reputation for impenetrability, the basic…
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Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published “The Future of Jobs Report 2023.” The WEF has been publishing Future of Jobs Reports since 2016 to explore how socio-economic and technology trends are likely to shape the evolution of jobs and skills over the following 5 years. “In 2023, labour-market transformations driven by technological…
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A few months ago, the Linux Foundation (LF) announced its intent to launch the Open Wallet Foundation (OWF) in early 2023. The OWF aims to develop open source software, key building blocks, and best practices that anyone can use to build multi-platform, interoperable, secure, and privacy-protecting digital wallets that will support a wide variety of…
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“Over the past decade, two major trends have emerged concurrently,” said Five Keys To Innovating Faster With Cloud, a recent report by Forrester Research. “First, there has been a growing need for rapid innovation and adaptivity as businesses respond to customer-driven trends. At the same time, cloud platforms have advanced rapidly in their capabilities and…
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On October 17, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) conducted an online forum on Service Systems Engineering in the Era of Human-Centered AI. “With AI advances poised to drive service system productivity and quality – similar to the way previous generations of technology revolutionized agriculture and manufacturing productivity and quality – it is time to…
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Two years ago, the Carnegie Endowment launched the Cloud Governance Project, a multi-year study on the governance challenges associated with cloud computing. “This project recognizes that the cloud offers huge benefits for individuals, organizations, and national economies through greater IT convenience, flexibility, and cost savings,” said the project’s website. “However, the risks of a major disruption…
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In January of 2021 I attended Predictions 21, an online event organized by Forrester Research. “Faced with the pandemic, firms did things that once seemed impossible – sometimes overnight,” said Forrester last year, adding that “2021 will be the year that every company – not just the 15% of firms that were already digitally savvy…
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“In the next decade, we’ll experience more progress than in the past 100 years combined, as technology reshapes health and materials sciences, energy, transportation, and a wide range of other industries and domains,” notes a recent McKinsey study on the The top trends in tech. “The implications for corporations are broad.” “These trends may not…