Targeting AI

Dec 10 2024 39 ep. 43 mins 3

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Hosts Shaun Sutner, TechTarget News senior news director, and AI news writer Esther Ajao interview AI experts from the tech vendor, analyst and consultant community, academia and the arts as well as AI technology users from enterprises and advocates for data privacy and responsible use of AI. Topics are related to news events in the AI world but the episodes are intended to have a longer, more ”evergreen” run and they are in-depth and somewhat long form, aiming for 45 minutes to an hour in duration. The podcast will occasionally host guests from inside TechTarget and its Enterprise Strategy Group and Xtelligent divisions as well and also include some news-oriented episodes featuring Sutner and Ajao reviewing the news.

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Moveworks uses AI to grow its employee automation platform

Dec 10 2024 47 mins

The AI application startup, which was founded in 2016 and was valued at more than $2.1 billion in 2021, uses a reasoning engine to help employees search for information across the enterprise. Since its inception, a key ingredient in the company's success has been AI and generative AI technology. "We were the first company after Google to deploy BERT in production," said co-founder

Oracle generative AI approach based on Cohere, Meta models

Nov 26 2024 43 mins

When generative AI became the next big thing in tech, enterprise software giant Oracle bet heavily on a startup to provide it with foundation and large language models rather than scramble to develop its own. That then-fledgling company was Cohere. Founded in 2019, the generative AI vendor raised $270 million in a Series C round, and its investors included Oracle, Nvidia, Salesforc

Creating a clean generative AI data set with Getty Images

Nov 12 2024 37 mins

At the beginning of the wave of generative AI hype, many feared that generative models would replace the jobs of creatives like artists and photographers. With generative AI models such as Dall-E and Midjourney seemingly creating unique works of art and images, some artists found themselves at a disadvantage. Some say the generative systems took their artwork, copied it and used it

AI industry could see regulation rollback under Trump

Nov 07 2024 40 mins

President-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign offered clues about how his administration would handle the fast-growing AI sector. One thing is clear: AI, to the extent that it is regulated, is headed for deregulation. "It's likely going to mean less regulation for the AI industry," said Makenzie Holland, senior news writer at TechTarget Editorial covering tech regulatio

Exploring the role of AI in beauty and haircare

Oct 29 2024 42 mins

When Candace Mitchell was young, she discovered a love for computers and haircare. Her interest in technology led her to study coding in high school, leading her to build websites. Meanwhile, she also considered going to cosmetology school. She found a middle ground in beauty technology, later becoming co-founder and CEO of Myavana, a Black-owned beauty technology vendor. Myavana u

Closing the gap between open source and closed AI models

Oct 15 2024 46 mins

Open source AI models are closing the gap in the debate between open and closed models. Since the introduction of Meta Llama generative AI models in February 2023, more enterprises have started to run their AI applications on open source models. Cloud providers like Google have also noticed this shift and have accommodated enterprises by introducing models from open source vendors

Enterprise adoption of generative AI is accelerating

Oct 01 2024 47 mins

Nearly two years after the mass consumerization of generative AI with the introduction of ChatGPT, the technology is now moving from experimentation to implementation. A recent survey by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group found that generative AI adoption is growing. The analyst firm surveyed 832 professionals worldwide and found that adoption has increased in the last year. "W

Google head of product on generative AI strategy

Sep 16 2024 45 mins

As one of the top cloud providers, Google Cloud also stands at the forefront of the generative AI market. Over the past two years, Google has been enmeshed in a push and pull with its chief competitors -- AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI -- in the race to dominate generative AI. Google has introduced a slate of new generative AI products in the past year, including its main proprietary la

AT&T's David C. Williams on how generative AI will force diversity in AI systems

Sep 03 2024 27 mins

In the past two years, generative AI has shown a lack of diversity in AI systems and tech in general. An AT&T exec explains why that will soon change.

Generative AI fuels growth of online deepfakes threatening organizations and election integrity

Aug 19 2024 42 mins

As generative AI systems and voice cloning apps grow, organizations are seeing a rise in fraudulent calls. Organizations need to be vigilant and plan to deal with these threats.