CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. And part of that success comes from investing in talented IT pros who have the skills necessary to work with your organizations preferred technology platforms, from the database to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

IT may be central to modern existence, but the people and processes of IT remain a mystery to most business executives and colleagues. Its time to change this. I asked a group of business executives to take out a blank sheet of paper, draw a big circle, and label it IT People and Processes. For the vast majority, that circle was a tiny period.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

TIAA has launched a generative AI implementation, internally referred to as “Research Buddy,” that pulls together relevant facts and insights from publicly available documents for Nuveen, TIAA’s asset management arm, on an as-needed basis. When the research analysts want the research, that’s when the AI gets activated. What’s in a name?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 billion estimate in May. And speaking at the Barclays Global Financial Services conference in September, he said gen AI will have a big impact in improving processes and efficiencies. It gets beyond what we can manage.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

All of this creates new challenges, on top of those already posed by the gen AI itself. Plus, unlike traditional automations, agentic systems are non-deterministic. This puts them at odds with legacy platforms, which are universally very deterministic. If you want to strike oil, you have to drill through the granite to get to it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Gartner is projecting worldwide IT spending to jump by 9.3% in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. Gartner’s new 2025 IT spending projection , of $5.75 trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2% This year, they did POCs, but it didn’t work out. The key message was, ‘Pace yourself.’”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As part of its storytelling ethos, the flight-status LLM will specify, for example, which precise weather event may be affecting a delayed flight and provide quick and useful information to customers about next actions. People hear the specifics, and they understand it and their blood pressure goes down.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. Analysts say the big three hyperscalers and cloud management vendors are aware of the gap and are working on it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. With Databricks, the firm has also begun its journey into generative AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue. Navigating this level of change will require a new type of IT leadership skill and business acumen that hasn’t been part of the traditional job description.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. But that will change. “As Mentors are crucial to your success,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. The problem isnt just the shortage of qualified candidates; its the lack of alignment between the skills available in the workforce and the skills organizations need. Take cybersecurity, for example.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 21, 2025

The DeepSeek R1 has arrived, and it’s not just another AI modelit’s a significant leap in AI capabilities, trained upon the previously released DeepSeek-V3-Base variant. With the full-fledged release of DeepSeek R1, it now stands on par with OpenAI o1 in both performance and flexibility.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Image segmentation is another popular computer vision task that has applications with different models. Its usefulness across different industries and fields has allowed for more research and improvements. Performing tasks like this would […] The post Using Maskformer for Images With Overlapping Objects appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Last year, the DeepSeek LLM made waves with its impressive 67 billion parameters, meticulously trained on an expansive dataset of 2 trillion tokens in English and Chinese comprehension. Setting new benchmarks for research collaboration, DeepSeek ingrained the AI community by open-sourcing both its 7B/67B Base and Chat models.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Alibabas latest model, QwQ-32B-Preview , has gained some impressive reviews for its reasoning abilities. Like OpenAIs GPT-4 o1, 1 its training has emphasized reasoning rather than just reproducing language. I also tried a few competing models: GPT-4 o1 and Gemma-2-27B. Gemma, as far as I know, makes no such claim. How do you test a reasoning model?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 21, 2025

At first glance, its mesmerizinga paradise of potential. AI systems promise seamless conversations, intelligent agents, and effortless integration. But look closely and chaos emerges: a false paradise all along. Or perhaps it cheerfully informs your CEO its archived those sensitive board documentsinto entirely the wrong folder.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I did a simple experiment: I pointed it at two of my recent posts, “ Think Better ” and “ Henry Ford Does AI.” Both the summary and suggested questions NotebookLM provided were quite good: They went beyond simply commenting on the two pieces and got into the relationship between the two. Was it 100% correct? Is this revolutionary?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects. And while most executives generally trust their data, they also say less than two thirds of it is usable. That requires curation and cleaning for hygiene and consistency, and it also requires a feedback loop.”

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the age of information overload, it’s easy to get lost in the large amount of content available online. YouTube offers billions of videos, and the internet is filled with articles, blogs, and academic papers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. Since then, several organizations have begun using the technology , and major vendors such as Salesforce and ServiceNow have offered AI agents to customers.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Python’s versatility and readability have solidified its position as the go-to language for data science, machine learning, and AI. With a rich ecosystem of libraries, Python empowers developers to tackle complex tasks with ease.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 16, 2024

OpenAI Swarm – launched in 2024, is an experimental framework designed to simplify the orchestration of multi-agent systems for developers. It aims to streamline the coordination of AI agents through scalable and user-friendly mechanisms, making it easier to manage interactions within complex workflows.

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 12, 2025

Apache Iceberg is a modern table format designed to overcome the limitations of traditional Hive tables, offering improved performance, consistency, and scalability. In this article, we will explore the evolution of Iceberg, its key features like ACID transactions, partition evolution, and time travel, and how it integrates with modern data lakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In a recent interview, Bhimani talked about the importance of thinking about ethical uses of AI and how it can benefit both humanity and individual organizations. The opportunity in front of us is not to just ride the wave of AI,” Bhimani says. “The The opportunity in front of us is not to just ride the wave of AI,” Bhimani says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

“Because of the relentless innovation happening in the tech vendor race, CIOs feel like they are always living the hype, while the reality of their AI outcomes race — how tough it is to get value — makes it feel like they are also in the trough,” Mary Mesaglio, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner said in a statement.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 29, 2025

Beam search is a powerful decoding algorithm extensively used in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. It is especially important in sequence generation tasks such as text generation, machine translation, and summarization. Beam search balances between exploring the search space efficiently and generating high-quality output.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The landscape of AI is evolving rapidly, and language models, particularly those designed for reasoning and problem-solving tasks, are at the heart of this revolution. One such breakthrough in AI is Phi-4, a 14-billion parameter model developed by Microsoft Research.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Imagine your AI assistant taking over your mouse and keyboard to navigate a computer just like you wouldclicking, typing, and scrolling, all by “looking” at the screen. Anthropic’s latest update introduces this cool capability to their AI model, Claude.

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