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Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab
Enlarge / Apple has been tight-lipped about its AI plans but industry insiders suggest the company is focused on deploying generative AI on its mobile devices. FT montage/Getty Images Apple has poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and has created a secretive European laboratory in Zurich, as the tech giant builds a team…
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Lack of organizational readiness is biggest hurdle to artificial intelligence adoption
Managers of companies in the industrial sector, including construction, have bought the hype of artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative technology, but their organizations are not ready to realize its promise, according to research from IFS, a global cloud enterprise software company. An IFS survey of 1,700 senior decision-makers found that 84% of executives anticipate…
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How AI could become an unlikely ally in the fight against forest fires
A swarm of drones dart across black clouds of smoke, analysing the direction and intensity of the inferno below. The data is fed back to a ‘super-computer’ located many miles away and informs decisions about which towns in the wider area to evacuate, with alerts quickly sent to residents’ phones. At the same time, a…
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Nurses have a deep distrust of AI – but transparency and training
While some nurses recognize the potential of artificial intelligence to minimize documentation burden and improve patient monitoring – and see a future with broader AI-enabled nursing – others are concerned about AI replacing empathetic human assessment of patients, cutting nursing jobs, risking protected patient data to compromise and more. In this spirit, the California Nurses Association organized a…
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Apple Beefs up AI Talent Pool by Recruiting From Google
Apple has reportedly hired away dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google. That’s according to a Tuesday (April 30) report by the Financial Times (FT), which analyzed hundreds of LinkedIn profiles, along with job postings and research papers. The analysis showed a hiring spree by the tech giant to expand its AI and machine learning operations, with Apple recruiting at least…
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Apple’s new artificial intelligence team is composed of a large number of professionals from its biggest rival.
In recent years, Apple has reportedly managed to attract at least 36 professionals from Google with experience in artificial intelligence, according to an analysis of LinkedIn profiles conducted by Financial Times. Additionally, six of these former Google employees are listed as authors of an Apple research paper on multimodal language models, published last month. Business…
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Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data. Amazon Q not only generates highly accurate code, it also tests, debugs, and has multi-step planning and reasoning capabilities that can transform and implement new code generated from developer…
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Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Horizons in a Digital Age
Policymakers, Scholars, and Technology Executives to Gather for Groundbreaking Conference LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Islamic Center of Southern California and Bayan Islamic Graduate School are proud to host a groundbreaking conference, “Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Horizons in a Digital Age,” on Saturday, May 11, 2024. This event will take place at the Islamic…
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Penn Engineering announces first Ivy Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence
More than two months after announcing the first Ivy League undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence, the University of Pennsylvania is now introducing the first Ivy League Master’s degree in AI. On Tuesday, April 30, Penn’s School of Engineering announced the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in…
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Intel expects $500 million in Gaudi 3 AI sales for the rest of the year — Nvidia to rake in $40 billion for data center AI this year
Intel’s Gaudi 3 processor for AI applications is significantly faster than its predecessor, which makes this offering significantly more competitive against rivals. However, the company gave a rather uninspiring guidance for Gaudi 3 sales this year: the company expects Gaudi 3 to generate $500 million in revenue in 2024. Compared to AI-related expectations of AMD and Nvidia,…
