News from TechTalk Summits

Three Areas Where AI Can Make a Huge Difference Without Significant Job Risk

By Rob Enderle for TDWI

As we roll out AI, we are focusing too much on productivity and not enough on the things that truly need fixing.

AI Chatbot Could Become Real Threat If Controlled by Oppressive Power

By Hannah Ng and Tiffany Meier

AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, could become a real threat if it is controlled by an oppressive power like adversarial countries, according to Rex Lee, a cybersecurity adviser at My Smart Privacy. In an interview with The New York Times, Hinton sounded the alarm about the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to create false images, photos, and text to the point where the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”

Why Back-to-Office Policies Won’t Help Big Tech Sell AI: The Remote Work Contradiction

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

There is a growing tension between Big Tech’s pre-pandemic promotion of remote work and its current back-to-office efforts. The shift in workplace dynamics and management strategies forces buyers to question the tech industry’s credibility.

Apple Intelligence Initial Analysis: Apple Shows the Market How AI Should Be Done on Devices

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

At the Apple World-Wide Developers Conference today, the company showed a bevy of new features across its platforms following a commercial for its Apple TV+ streamer. I’m sure, like me, many of those watching the WWDC live stream from Tim Cook and the team kept waiting for AI.

Why Lenovo Is The Better Choice Than Dell In AI Deployment

By Rob Enderle for TGDaily

When it comes to AI deployments, two companies stand out for their breadth of offerings, but only one of the two currently has the experience to better assure the outcome.

Qualcomm Flexes Its AI Muscles and Enables The Edge

By Rob Enderle for TDWI

When we talk about “Edge Computing,” we are often talking about PCs, but PCs are a tiny part of the edge that will enable the coming AI world. The real volume will be in sensors that give the deployed AIs the ability to sense and interact with the world around us.

Thinking Out Loud: What Should an AI PC Do?

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

AI PCs are coming. AI PCs will include a key that invokes a Microsoft Copilot. Copilot, as it does on Microsoft Edge and Windows 11, will pop up, informing the person pushing the key that it is ready to be asked anything. But that isn’t really an AI PC. It is a PC that integrates a generative AI chatbot at the most rudimentary level.

With AI, Communication Skills Become Vastly More Important

By Rob Enderle for Techspective

There has been a joke going around my community that goes something like this: “OMG, AI is taking our jobs. All users will need to be able to do is describe what they want an app to do, and AIs will do the work without us!” The response is, “No worries. When has a user ever been able to describe what they want?”