Small Business Owners Beginning to Turn to AI for Help with Everyday Tasks

Small business owners recognize the vast potential of generative artificial intelligence to help them grow, and some have started using it, yet many are hesitant about how best to use it, according to new survey results from GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), the company that helps entrepreneurs thrive.

TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for May 2023

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

insideBIGDATA Latest News – 6/6/2023

In this regular column, we’ll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we’re in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we’re in a unique position to inform you about all that’s new and exciting. Our massive industry database is growing all the time so stay tuned for the latest news items describing technology that may make you and your organization more competitive.

Heard on the Street – 6/5/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

3 Key AI Predictions for The Near Future + How to Use AI to Transform Your Business

In this contributed article, IT and digital marketing specialist Natasha Lane asks – what does the future bring for AI solutions? And can small and mid-size companies implement these products to advance their businesses? This article will explore three key AI predictions for the near future, along with a few suggestions on how to use AI to transform your business.

Video Highlights: Fine Tune GPT-J 6B in Under 3 Hours on IPUs

Did you know you can run GPT-J 6B on Graphcore IPU in the cloud? Following the now infamous leaked Google memo, there’s been a real storm in the AI world recently around smaller, open source language models, like GPT-J, that are cheaper and faster to fine-tune, run and perform just as well as larger models for many language tasks. 

Fake ChatGPT Apps Scam Users Out of Thousands of Dollars, Sophos Reports

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, announced that it had uncovered multiple apps masquerading as legitimate, ChatGPT-based chatbots to overcharge users and bring in thousands of dollars a month. As detailed in Sophos X-Ops’ latest report, “’FleeceGPT’ Mobile Apps Target AI-Curious to Rake in Cash,” these apps have popped up in both the Google Play and Apple App Store, and, because the free versions have near-zero functionality and constant ads, they coerce unsuspecting users into signing up for a subscription that can cost hundreds of dollars a year.

Dataiku 12 Accelerates Into the AI Era With Power and Control

Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, unveiled Dataiku 12, their latest breakthrough release packed with transformative new features designed to help organizations confidently harness AI in their advanced analytics initiatives with enhanced transparency and strengthened governance features. 

Databricks Data Reports Shows How 9,000+ Global Companies are Gearing Up to Be Competitive on AI

Data + AI company Databricks has published the 2023 State of Data + AI report, examining patterns and trends in AI adoption across more than 9,000 global companies that use the platform as a foundation for their data efforts. The report paints a pretty clear picture on how enterprises are preparing to stay competitive in this new age of generative AI, with data to support how companies are embracing LLMs and what the fastest growing data and AI tools out there are. 

UVA Researchers Built an AI Algorithm That Understands Physics

Normally, when testing the behavior of materials under high heat or explosive conditions, researchers have to run simulation after simulation, a data-intensive process that can take days even on a supercomputer. However, with a deep learning algorithm created by Stephen Baek, Phong Nguyen and their research team, the process takes less than a second on a laptop.