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Alex Woodie

Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.

Nvidia Tees Up New Platforms for Generative Inference Workloads like ChatGPT

March 21st, 2023 (0)

Today at its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia discussed four new platforms designed to accelerate AI applications. Three are targeted at inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos, and another is aimed boosting recommendation models, ...

Google Officially Releases Bard, Its ChatGPT Competitor

March 21st, 2023 (0)

Google today announced that it’s officially releasing Bard, the new generative language model that it unveiled several weeks ago. While it’s still a research product, Google is eager to get Bard into the hands of testers. Bard is a ...

Prompt Engineer: The Next Hot Job in AI

February 15th, 2023 (0)

Technology professionals who want to catch the hottest wave in AI at the moment may consider becoming prompt engineers, which appears to be one of the most in-demand professions for 2023. And developers who want to get the most ...

Americans Don’t Trust AI and Want It Regulated: Poll

February 14th, 2023 (0)

American companies are adopting AI technology at a rapid clip, but a majority of U.S. citizens don’t trust it and want to see its use regulated by the government, according to a new Harris Poll survey released last week. ...

You Can Now Get Priority Access to ChatGPT for $20 a Month

February 2nd, 2023 (0)

Since it was released in late November, ChatGPT has become the latest internet sensation, generating well-written articles, songs, and term papers. More than 100 million people have flocked to try out the free service, which has strained resources powering ...

NIST Puts AI Risk Management on the Map with New Framework

January 27th, 2023 (0)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the AI Risk Management Framework, document intended to help organizations voluntarily develop and deploy AI systems without bias and other negative outcomes. The document has a very good shot ...

Hallucinations, Plagiarism, and ChatGPT

January 18th, 2023 (0)

ChatGPT was introduced just seven weeks ago, but the AI has already garnered a lifetime’s worth of hype. It’s anybody’s guess whether this particular technology opens the AI kimono for good or is just a blip before the next ...

Microsoft Seeks $10B Investment in OpenAI: Report

January 12th, 2023 (0)

Microsoft, which is already invested in OpenAI to the tune of $1 billion and enjoys an exclusive partnership with it to train its AI models, reportedly is looking to invest $10 billion in the company following the breakout success ...

SageMaker Bolstered with Better Controls, AI Governance

December 2nd, 2022 (0)

AWS has unveiled a host of enhancements for Amazon SageMaker, its end-to-end machine learning offering. Among the most prominent capabilities are a collection of new governance tools aimed at keeping ML projects on the straight and narrow, but there ...

Air Force Looks to AI to Help Maintain Bombers, ICBMs

November 19th, 2022 (0)

The United States Air Force Global Strike Command will deploy artificial intelligence technology in a bid to increase the reliability of its nuclear bombers and ICBMs as part of an expansion of its partnership with Virtualitics, a provider of ...