The path to successful conversational AI capabilities

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Conversational AI technologies are entering an era of hyper-personalized, multimodal assistants that are empathetic, inclusive, and immersive. Enterprises should take a gradual approach to conversational AI, increasingly moving toward complex features with continuous incremental advancements. Click here to continue. Source: MIT […]

Responsible synthetic content for the metaverse age

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Enterprises must use a model based on design principles to create responsible, privacy-first synthetic content for the metaverse to balance between protecting end users’ personal data and generating high-quality experiences. Click here to continue. Source: MIT Technology Review

Shifting from cloud first to cloud everywhere in financial services

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Senior leaders from AWS, Truist Financial, Citizens Bank, and Comerica Bank share stories on cloud-led transformation in their organizations and the difference it made. Click here to continue. Source: MIT Technology Review

Fast and flexible innovation with ServiceNow’s Rohit Batra

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Rohit Batra, VP and head of product, telecom, media and technology industry at ServiceNow, discusses innovation and cloud functionality with a focus on the challenges of implementing technology in telecom, media, and technology. Click here to continue. Source: MIT Technology Review

A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right-to-repair wave

reader comments 39 with 30 posters participating Share this story Farmers around the world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the […]

The Download: extending dogs’ lives, and sex and the immune system

Matt Kaeberlein is what you might call a dog person. He has grown up with dogs and describes his German shepherd, Dobby, as “really special.” But Dobby is 14 years old—around 98 in dog years. “I’m very much seeing the aging process in him,” says Kaeberlein, who studies aging at the University of Washington in […]

ITP News in brief 15th August

Victoria MacLennan. 15 August 2022, 10:52 pm Kia ora koutou, ITP members and supporters, it’s Rāhina (Monday) so time for a brief summary of news.  I was sent a link to this mind-blowing blog post today on “the assassination of contractor recruitment in New Zealand as we know it”. It seems after years of paying […]

The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system

She ultimately found a postdoctoral position in the lab of one of her thesis committee members. And in the years since, as she has established a lab of her own at the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, she has painstakingly made the case that sex—defined by biological attributes such as our sex chromosomes, sex […]