GitHub Unveils Public Beta of Copilot Chat IDE Integration
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here GitHub’s latest innovation in generative AI and GPT-4, Copilot X, is expanding its reach to enterprise companies and organizations. Today, the company announced the limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat. With this, GitHub aims to integrate a context-aware conversational assistant
Long-forgotten frozen soil sample serves as a cautionary tale for the future
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40 feet above today’s levels. Around
Hollywood’s AI Strike Ignites Creative Potential in Digital Humans
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Hollywood actors and writers are currently striking, and one of their biggest concerns is the impact of generative AI on their industry and their jobs. In a news conference last Thursday, Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation
The Potential Benefits of Being a Psychopath
Think of a psychopath and any number of Hollywood villains might come to mind, from charming killers like Hannibal Lecter to Anton Chigurh, portrayed with chilling menace by Javier Bardem in the film No Country for Old Men. But the traits and symptoms of psychopathy run along scales that range from weak to strong. So
Stanford study debunks assumptions about language models: Bigger context doesn’t guarantee improved comprehension
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here A study released this month by researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Samaya AI has found that large language models (LLMs) often fail to access and use relevant information given to them in longer context windows. In language models
New Team of Legged Robots Developed for Planetary Exploration
While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots. They look like giant metal insects, but the trio of
iGenius’s GPT for Numbers: Revolutionizing Language Models to Empower Enterprise Data
Uljan Sharka, founder and CEO of iGenius, has spent the last seven years working on language models and generative AI. To this point, it’s been all about the technology, from the size of the model to how much training data it uses to inference times. And what he’s learned over the past seven years, and
Promising Internet Satellite Rendered Useless Due to Power Supply Problems
Astranis, a company seeking to provide Internet connectivity from geostationary space, said in May that its "Arcturus" satellite was successfully deployed following a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket. After taking control of the satellite, Astranis then began to send commands and update the flight software before raising Arcturus' orbit and slotting it into a
Confluent Enhances Real-Time Data Accessibility through New Partner Program
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Data streaming major Confluent has launched a ‘Connect with Confluent’ partner program to help technology providers like Google BigQuery and MongoDB enable faster access to real-time data streams through their products. The initiative will enable vendors to bring fully managed
AI and Automation to Dominate as IT Demands Soar, Reveals Salesforce Survey
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here A new survey from Salesforce has revealed that AI and automation will be critical drivers for enterprise IT teams as they contend with growing demands of a turbulent macroeconomic environment. The research, conducted between February and April 2023, involved 4,000
