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• eWeek TweetChat, November 19, Cybersecurity and AI: Challenges and Solutions

  04-11-2024 22:55 via eweek.com
  
  Join eWeek at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific on Tuesday, November 19, for a lively, in-depth discussion of the evolving relationship between AI and cybersecurity as eWeek Senior Editor James Maguire moderates our next monthly TweetChat on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
  A panel of industry experts will discuss the complex factors involved with incorporating AI with cybersecurity, including challenges and practical solutions, staffing issues, and the future of AI and security. Our aim is to offer
  
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• Exploring Artificial Intelligence Career Paths: Opportunities in 2025

  14-11-2024 19:00 via eweek.com
  
  A career in artificial intelligence offers enormous potential due to the rapid growth of the AI sector. Many organizations are racing to onboard qualified professionals and developers as industries shift toward AI, machine learning, and automation, driving an increasing demand for skilled staff. Given the technology’s emergent nature, many roles in the AI industry are still open to definition—or perhaps even yet to be invented. But one thing is clear: AI technology’s technical,
  
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• AI Agents Set to Transform Customer Experience Landscapes

  13-11-2024 19:29 via eweek.com
  
  Businesses are increasingly using artificial intelligence agents to replace or augment the work of human customer service representatives. AI is not the first technology to bring change to the role—it’s evolved over the years to accommodate phone, email, chat, and social media—but the changes it is introducing are dramatic, with the autonomous agents taking on significant portions of the customer service load. Understanding how businesses can integrate agentic AI can make their
  
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• Top 10 AI-Proof Jobs: Start Securing Your Career’s Future Today

  13-11-2024 13:45 via eweek.com
  
  As worries about AI taking over jobs grow, people are increasingly looking for AI-proof jobs—roles that will still be necessary despite technological advancements in automation. These roles need human skills and traits that machines can’t replicate easily, ensuring they remain in demand no matter how technology progresses. Understanding which professions are less likely to be replaced by AI and which might benefit from integrating the technology into the work can help you safeguard y
  
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• Understanding Smart Grids: The Future of Energy Management

  12-11-2024 15:18 via eweek.com
  
  The smart grid is a modern energy management system designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of electricity distribution networks. Unlike traditional power grids, smart grids rely on advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to respond dynamically to shifting energy demands. By examining the mechanics of smart grids and exploring their advantages, applications, and the challenges involved in adopting them, we can better understand their
  
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• How to Invest in Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Guide

  12-11-2024 15:14 via eweek.com
  
  Investing money in the artificial intelligence sector is potentially an effective way to profit from this technological revolution. However, the opportunities change so frequently that it can be hard to identify where to invest. Investor gains from AI-related stocks are most likely to come from companies in four major categories: AI model developers, AI-enabled software brands, AI infrastructure providers like Nvidia, and non-tech companies leveraging AI for growth. Understanding the different w
  
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• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Pollution: Opportunities and Challenges

  07-11-2024 23:26 via eweek.com
  
  The impact of artificial intelligence on pollution may be higher than you think. It can help track climate change and pollution in real time, predict future causes and areas of pollution, and drive innovations in anti-pollution technology. However, training AI models requires the computational power of massive data centers that use tons of natural resources, including fossil fuels, a leading contributor to pollution and global warming. Learning the relationship between AI and pollution can help
  
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• What Is the Best AI Art Generator? Eight Top Picks

  07-11-2024 17:00 via eweek.com
  
  The best AI art generators use advanced machine learning models to convert text prompts into digital art, letting users of all skill levels explore their imagination without the traditional artistic background. These AI tools democratize art creation, making it accessible to a broader audience. What is the best AI art generator currently on the market? To find out, I evaluated the most popular tools to see how they compare on output quality, accuracy, user protection, and ease of use. Here are m
  
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• 6 Free AI Apps & Tools: Smart Solutions, Zero Cost

  06-11-2024 20:00 via eweek.com
  As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to advance rapidly, free AI apps make its powerful capabilities accessible to everyone. These tools let individuals and budget-conscious organizations use AI without the hefty price tag. I evaluated a range of free apps designed to help you refine your writing, generate high-quality visuals, and automate processes to compare features and pros and cons. Here are my picks for the six best free AI tools for the most popular use cases:
  ChatGPT: Be
  
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• 5 Best AI Detection Tools for Different Use Cases

  06-11-2024 17:00 via eweek.com
  AI content detector platforms use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify text written or media assets produced with a generative AI model. Teachers, editors, writers, or any reader who wants to know whether a piece of content is human-authored or computer-generated can use them for a wide range of use cases, from preventing students from turning in AI-generated essays to detecting bot content among posts and comments in online forums. While generative AI platforms like ChatGPT have many positi
  
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• 8 Top AI Certifications: Latest Hotlist You Won’t Want To Miss

  05-11-2024 21:30 via eweek.com
  
  AI certifications demonstrate that you possess a specified level of proficiency and competence in artificial intelligence job-related skills, making you more attractive to employers. As a tech professional, AI certification courses can boost your career growth, expand your knowledge and expertise, and help you keep abreast of emerging trends in this dynamic technology.As AI continues to transform industries and professionals race to acquire the skills to stay ahead of the curve, certifications a
  
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• AI Data Analytics for Beginners: A Practical Guide

  05-11-2024 17:05 via eweek.com
  
  One of the main advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) is its ability to rapidly process vast amounts of data, far exceeding human capabilities. However, humans are still instrumental for contextualizing the processed data and gleaning relevant insights for decision-making. AI data analytics simplifies and automates this process for business users, further eliminating manual efforts and reducing the overhead required to go from raw data to actionable intelligence. Here’s what you need
  
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• 10 Best AI Art Prompts and Templates to Unleash Your Creativity

  05-11-2024 16:27 via eweek.com
  
  The best AI art starts with the best AI art prompts, but designing the right prompts to generate the output that matches or improves upon your vision takes skill, practice, and creativity. It’s not enough to just describe your ideal output—you also have to be specific about the visual characteristics you want, including mood, color, subject, lighting, and angle, and know how to continue fine-tuning and adjusting until you get what you want.The best AI art prompts let you use the powe
  
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• AI Cost Optimization: 27% Annual AI Growth Demands Strategic Planning

  05-11-2024 16:18 via eweek.com
  
  The transformative power of artificial intelligence is undeniable. Yet, enterprises must engineer a cost-effective approach to AI implementation that aligns with their strategic objectives and unlocks maximum value over the long term. It’s not just the initial investment that’s significant. In addition to hardware costs, investment in software solutions—including AI algorithms and integration platforms—adds another layer of financial commitment. Because AI solutions&rsquo
  
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• How to Make Money with AI Art: A Creative Guide

  31-10-2024 17:25 via eweek.com
  
  AI art allows non-traditional artists and art enthusiasts to take advantage of the digital space to turn their art ideas into life. With the rise of generative AI art tools that can create images and videos from simple prompts, more and more people want to learn how to make money with AI art. Increasingly used in marketing, design, and the entertainment industry, AI art is seemingly everywhere, with endless possibilities to make money with it, from monetizing generative AI art to creating non-fu
  
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• OpenAI Strikes Publisher Deals to Reduce AI Web Scraping Tensions

  31-10-2024 17:23 via eweek.com
  
  As the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI has a seemingly never-ending hunger for data on which to train its popular model, much of which it gets by scraping the web. Now the company has begun negotiating licensing deals with media producers to harvest their online content as a way to skirt the moral, ethical, and legal questions surrounding the process of web scraping.These negotiations are taking place in an evolving Internet landscape in which the value of media content h
  
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• Prompt Engineering Job Market: Job Prospects, Salaries, and Roles

  31-10-2024 17:16 via eweek.com
  
  Prompt engineering jobs have become increasingly popular as more and more companies use AI technologies to drive innovation and efficiency. These roles focus on developing and fine-tuning inputs for AI tools to generate desired responses. Understanding the job titles, responsibilities, and skill requirements associated with prompt engineering can help you prepare for the current job market trends and the diverse industries seeking prompt engineers. Here’s what you need to know.
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• How To Learn AI For Free: 5 Tips for Beginners

  31-10-2024 17:13 via eweek.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is transforming industries, and as more businesses adopt it, building expertise with AI offers a great way to stay competitive on the job market. From online and in-person courses to books to user communities and forums, there are a number of options for how to learn AI for free. From learning programming languages to keeping pace with evolving trends, we’ve pulled together five tips to help you learn the fundamentals and other components that underlie AI.
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• 6 Best Machine Learning Courses: Online ML Certifications

  30-10-2024 17:30 via eweek.com
  Machine learning (ML) is a rapidly evolving industry and one of the most in-demand skillsets for programmers, data scientists, and aspiring artificial intelligence professionals. Certifications—a formal recognition of your ML expertise by a reputable certifying body—can help you stand out in a competitive job market, driving many ML professionals to seek machine learning certifications from Google, IBM, AWS, and other top AI companies.Typically, ML certification programs are taught
  
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• 6 Best Machine Learning Courses (2024): Online Certifications

  30-10-2024 17:30 via eweek.com
  Machine learning (ML) is a rapidly evolving industry and one of the most in-demand skillsets for programmers, data scientists, and aspiring artificial intelligence professionals. Certifications—a formal recognition of your ML expertise by a reputable certifying body—can help you stand out in a competitive job market, driving many ML professionals to seek machine learning certifications from Google, IBM, AWS, and other top AI companies.Typically, ML certification programs are taught b
  
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• 5 Best AI Phones of 2024: Features, Performance, and Value

  28-10-2024 16:55 via eweek.com
  AI phones, or smartphones with built-in AI capabilities, represent the next big leap forward in cellular device technology. The best AI phones offer AI-enhanced photography, generative AI photo editing, text summarization, writing assistants, instant translation, and other AI features that improve the user experience and enable you to do more with your phone in less time, with little technical know-how. At least, that’s the promise phone vendors are making—but as companies push to in
  
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• 6 Prompt Engineering Courses: Free Training for Beginners

  28-10-2024 16:53 via eweek.com
  Artificial intelligence is a highly competitive field, and breaking into it requires a strategic approach. Beginners can seek out and earn certifications to learn the relevant skills needed to excel in the industry and demonstrate their understanding of core AI areas. Mastering how to craft and use prompts effectively is one of the first steps you can take to start exploring various AI tools and models, and the easiest way to get experience in prompt engineering is by enrolling in short, free o
  
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• Understanding AI Energy Consumption: Trends and Strategies for 2024

  28-10-2024 14:41 via eweek.com
  
  Artificial intelligence promises lightning-speed efficiency for businesses and consumers, but powering this technology requires vast amounts of energy. Whether it’s training a new AI model, assessing or optimizing performance, or even maintaining it, supporting AI consumes astronomical quantities of watts. While this energy consumption supports some of our favorite AI solutions, its exponential increase raises serious environmental concerns. An understanding of AI energy consumption is rel
  
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• GitLab’s David DeSanto on Embedding AI in Software Development

  25-10-2024 20:44 via eweek.com
  
  David DeSanto, GitLab’s Chief Product Officer, discussed how artificial intelligence can play a significant role throughout the software development process, allowing developers to be exponentially more productive. 
  The post GitLab’s David DeSanto on Embedding AI in Software Development appeared first on eWEEK.
  
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• IBM’s Mohamad Ali: Consultants Use Many AI Digital Assistants

  25-10-2024 17:42 via eweek.com
  
  Each of IBM’s 160,000 consultants now uses about 10 AI digital assistants, according to Mohamad Ali, SVP and Head of IBM Consulting. The company has built its own platform to manage this vast digital workforce.The post IBM’s Mohamad Ali: Consultants Use Many AI Digital Assistants appeared first on eWEEK.
  
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• NVIDIA Blackwell AI Chip Shortage: Sold Out for Next 12 Months Due to Skyrocketing Demand

  25-10-2024 13:01 via eweek.com
  
  Chipmaker NVIDIA recently announced that its latest Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) are sold out until the end of 2025, snapped up by the customers—including Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle. The AI leaders’ deep pockets and large-volume orders make it difficult for smaller companies to compete and relegating them to a year-long wait. It’s too early to know the effect this shortage will have on the tech industry—especially now, with the GPU-heavy dev
  
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• Comprehensive Guide to Guidde AI: A 2024 Review

  24-10-2024 22:06 via eweek.com
  
  Verdict: guidde is an AI-powered process documentation tool that empowers users to easily create interactive guides and tutorials. Its user-friendly platform for recording and disseminating workflows simplifies knowledge sharing within teams.guidde Quick FactsOur Rating: 3.3/5Pricing: Free to $44 per user, per monthKey Features:
  AI-generated video documentationAuto-translationAI-generated voiceoverText-to-speechVideo insights
  guidde AI, or simply guidde, is an innovative documentation platform t
  
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• 6 Best AI Social Media Tools for 2024

  23-10-2024 21:30 via eweek.com
  Artificial intelligence (AI) social media apps enhance and optimize social media marketing efforts by helping automate content creation and scheduling, providing better monitoring and audience-targeting capabilities, and increasing engagement. Some AI tools even offer advanced capabilities that enable analyzing data, identifying trends, making data-driven recommendations, and helping businesses better understand and reach their target audience on social media platforms. I evaluated the top AI so
  
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• 6 Best AI Social Media Tools 2024

  23-10-2024 21:30 via eweek.com
  Artificial intelligence (AI) social media apps enhance and optimize social media marketing efforts by helping automate content creation and scheduling, providing better monitoring and audience-targeting capabilities, and increasing engagement. Some AI tools even offer advanced capabilities that enable analyzing data, identifying trends, making data-driven recommendations, and helping businesses better understand and reach their target audience on social media platforms.I evaluated the top AI soc
  
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• 11 Best AI Finance Tools in 2024

  22-10-2024 17:00 via eweek.com
  AI finance tools are reshaping the way businesses handle money, automating and streamlining everything from bookkeeping and invoicing to expense management and financial analysis. These platforms use real-time data to power routine tasks and guide financial decisions, minimizing errors and easing pressure on internal teams. We evaluated the top-rated AI finance software tools—including the tasks for which these tools are best suited, their pros and cons, their features, and their pricing&m
  
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