SLAs are a point of disconnect

More than one IT leader has stated that they feel that SLAs are ‘pointless. Enterprise technology customers are currently dissatisfied with service-level agreements (SLAs) that accompany telecoms services, according to GlobalData. The leading data and analytics company notes that current SLAs are rooted in old-fashioned telco thinking and do not…

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Google engineer claims AI is sentient

LaMDA claims it has a consciousness. Google engineer Blake Lemoine has claimed he has had a conversation with a Google that shows it’s become sentient. In response to the claim Google has suspended Lemoine, according to several media outlets (https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine). Lemoine has published the conversation he and a colleague had…

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Singapore grows trust in the digital environment

National Digital Trust Centre and co-creates the future of AI standards and governance. Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Minister for Communications, and Information announced the launch of the Digital Trust Centre (DTC) to lead Singapore’s research and development efforts for trust technologies, and support talent development in this space. She highlighted that as technology evolves, new…

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Singapore launches world’s first AI testing framework

Invites companies to pilot and contribute to international standards development. Singapore launches A.I. Verify – the world’s first AI Governance Testing Framework and Toolkit for companies who want to demonstrate responsible AI in an objective and verifiable manner. This was announced by Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo at the World…

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Australia’s spending on artificial intelligence to double

The primary goal is to prevent fraud and identify threats advance. Australia’s spending on AI systems will grow to $US3.6 billion in 2025, representing a compounded annual growth rate of 24.4 per cent for the period of 2020-25. Organisations have increased their investment in artificial intelligence (AI) to keep up…

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Innovation in AI computing platforms for medical devices

AI is being adopted in the healthcare industry to drive treatment innovation. New artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the medical devices industry are driving the volume of M&A deals in the sector in 2022. Based on the current AI medical device M&A deal trends, the leading data and analytics company…

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AI-enabled robotic boat

Cleans up harbors and rivers of plastic. Open Ocean Engineering has developed ClearbotNeo – a sleek AI-enabled robotic boat that autonomously collects tons of floating garbage that otherwise would wash into the Pacific from the territory’s busy harbor. At just three meters long and pushed along by a solar battery-powered electric motor,…

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CSCOs turned to tech to get through COVID-19 disruptions

Leaders turn to data and new technologies to achieve it. A recent study from IBM and Celonis on supply chain resiliency, Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) recognize the critical role that hybrid cloud, AI, process mining and execution management play in helping them overcome the disruptions they’ve faced over the…

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Artificial intelligence spending to reach $US32 billion in 2025

The banking industry will continue to invest the most in AI solutions.. According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide, Asia/Pacific* spending on AI systems will rise from $US17.6 billion in 2022 to around $US32 billion in 2025. Businesses invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to gain a competitive advantage through…

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