Even though the holiday season is in full swing, the tech world isn’t slowing down. This week brought new twists on established products as Google rolled out a beta version of Simple ML for Sheets, its cloud-based spreadsheet. The add-on borrows machine learning technology from its open source TensorfFlow project.
Every company loves to tout its vision and eye the trends we should all be tracking. However, when AWS looks ahead, as it did at its re:Invent conference, it makes sense to pay attention, so check out its picks for six trends that will drive machine learning adoption.
It's hard to go a day without hearing about generative AI and its transformational potential. But there remains an underlying issue with ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs). Sometimes they make up stuff – after all these models are trained to predict responses to an input – whether or not a fact is true.
Every self-respecting tech pro loves a good prediction story. After all, your job calls on you to, as Wayne Gretzy once said, “skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Deloitte, of course, is well-positioned to anticipate and look ahead so check out why it says AI, the cloud and the metaverse (and Web3) will stay hot in 2023.
Layoffs are never good – yes, stating the obvious here --- but there is a ripple effect that makes the recent round of tech layoffs even more troubling. For an industry already suffering from diversity and inclusion issues, workforce reductions may make a bad situation worse.
Here are the top 5 stories for the week December 5th.