Diane Gutiw, VP of Analytics at CGI – AI without the hype on Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition

While it’s still short on features or performance we become blinded to the current early state of development, focused instead on what it will be. We forget all of the change that has to happen in our organizations to make it work and how difficult it is to change people, processes and sometimes entire organizations. […]

Hashtag Trending March 8 – International Women’s Day | IT World Canada News

Nearly half of the female respondents reported that their company currently offers no programs or activities that promote gender equality at work. Additionally, more than 40 per cent of women have never asked for nor received a promotion, compared to just 33 per cent of men. These artists received nearly half a billion editorial streams […]

Hashtag Trending Feb.28th- Man runs cryptomining operation under a high school, Tesla …

Nahas made several references to crypto on Twitter but lied to the police about having a Twitter account. The head of Twitter Blue, the company’s verification subscription services, Esther Crawford has been let go, along with much of her product team. According to reports from the New York Times, this latest round of layoffs impacts […]

Laurent Simoneau, CTO of Coveo – Talking about cloud and AI on Hashtag Trending, the …

We have an artificial intelligence solution, he thought, but it only runs on a dedicated server. Laurent Simoneau was and is the CTO of Canada’s Artificial Intelligence company, Coveo. Not only about how to manage the cloud – but in how we might take new ideas like conversational AI and harness them to solve real […]

Hashtag Trending Feb.22nd-Four-day work week worth more than money – IT World Canada

Plus, The U.S. Shanghai-based GDS Holdings Ltd. The hackers had access to the login credentials for more than a year before posting them for sale on the dark web last month, for $175,000, according to cybersecurity company Resecurity Inc. Memory Saver will help users keep multiple tabs open at once, frees up memory from inactive […]

Hashtag Trending Feb.21- Meta to introduce paid verification badges, AI chatbot lashes out …

While that idea generated some real backlash, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg is going to try out a similar plan for Meta/Facebook with a subscription service priced at 11.99 per month. Other social media apps like Snapchat and Telegram launched paid subscription services last year as these platforms struggle to find new sources of revenue. […]

Hashtag Trending Feb. 17- ChatGPT vs Google, right to repair hits farming equipment and …

Both AI’s were asked a series of questions. Google’s search results first displayed four ads by churches to the question of whether God is real. Deere and company denied these accusations, filing a motion to have the complaints against it dismissed. When they could not get a veto, they asked for the law to only […]

Hashtag Trending Feb.16- GitHub delivers AI assisted coding, Salesforce takes a hit as …

Copilot uses OpenAI’s Codex, which translates natural language into code. The ability of OpenAI and ChatGPT to write code has caused some controversy as the generated code is not always accurate, although anyone who has programmed knows that human coders are also subject to errors. So, at least in the initial stages, GitHub is not […]

Hashtag Trending Feb.1- ; OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text, Paypal lays …

However, OpenAI told news site Axios that the tool is imperfect and performance varies based on how similar the text being analyzed is to the types of writing OpenAI’s tool was trained on. President and CEO Dan Schulman wrote in the release that PayPal is working to address the “challenging macroeconomic environment.” He added that […]

Hashtag Trending January 31st- Philips layoffs, Chinese ChatGPT, foldable iPad

Dutch electronics giant Philips is cutting 6000 jobs as it looks to restore its profitability and improve the safety of its products, following a recall of millions of its ventilators. The technology firm plans to launch the service as a standalone application and gradually integrate it into its search engine, said the person, who declined […]

Hashtag Trending January 30- Big Tech face pressure over AI; Intel’s devastating earnings call

Google, which helped pioneer some of the technology underpinning ChatGPT, recently issued a “code red” around launching AI products and proposed a “green lane” to shorten the process of assessing and mitigating potential harms, according to a report in the New York Times. Reuters reported that Intel has been losing market share to rivals which […]

Hashtag Trending Weekend Edition, January 27, 2023 – Josh Tyson, co-author of bestseller …

But how would we know when a computer had achieved human-like intelligence? Alan Turing, the man many consider to be the father of modern digital computing posited a solution to this question decades before digital computing became ubiquitous in our world. In 1997, an IBM computer called Deep Blue beat the world chess champion, Garry […]

Hashtag Trending January 26th- Layoffs hit IBM and SAP, smartphone shipments decline …

The layoffs, related to the spinoff of its Kyndryl business and a part of AI unit Watson Health – will cause a $300 million charge in the January-March period, IBM said. Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3 per cent year over year to 300 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone […]

Hashtag Trending Jan 26th-Amazon workers strike, Samsung wallet, Shutterstock embraces AI

A spokesperson for Amazon told the BBC that it has a system “that recognises great performance” and performance is only measured when an employee is at their station and logged in to do their job. Samsung Electronics today announced Samsung Wallet will be available in eight new markets, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, […]

Hashtag Trending January 25th- DOJ files lawsuit against Google, Microsoft checking for out …

The company has long denied that it dominates the online advertising market, pointing to the market share of competitors including Meta’s Facebook.The states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia joined the DOJ in the latest lawsuit. “This update will run one time silently without installing anything on the […]

Hashtag Trending Jan 24th-Hacktivist browses national security secrets, laid-off … – IT World Canada

Among the host of sensitive information discovered were the files “NoFly.csv,” and “selectee.csv”, containing over 1.8 million entries including names and dates of birth of people the FBI identifies as “known or suspected terrorists” who are prevented from boarding aircraft “when flying within, to, from and over the United States. He stressed that layoffs as […]

Hashtag Trending-EU addresses gaming issues, Windows 10 not for sale, AmazonSmile shutdown

According to Gamesindustry.biz, the European Parliament has voted to adopt a report that highlights the positives of the gaming industry but also the social risks, such as the impact of gaming on mental health. The AmazonSmile program functioned like an overlay for the standard Amazon site, whereby users could shop normally but select a charity […]