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Information Week •

The Real Cost of AI: An InformationWeek Special Report

It’s really getting a bit out of hand, isn’t it? Governments are vying for AI dominance with a desperation reminiscent of the nuclear arms race. The market is as moody as a teenager -- a rabid fan of AI one second, and totally over it the next. Major enterprises cut staff and elected officials bend land use rules all as part of exciting “strategic AI investments.”American AI companies have invested hundreds of billions to build AI tools, while a Chinese AI startup claims to have whipped one up i...
Information Week •

Special Report: What's the Environmental Impact of a Data-Driven Organization? | InformationWeek

Environmental science and technology researchers alike are ardently studying the voracious energy demands and carbon emissions of machine learning and artificial intelligence, searching for "green AI." Efforts like Digital Cleanup Day urge the average user to tidy up their overflowing inboxes to reduce the pressure on hot, panting cloud servers. But "Green AI" surely will not be green enough. And when data storage gets too tight, most of us respond by loosening the belt on iCloud, OneDrive, or G...
Dark Reading •

The Right to Be Patched: How Sentient Robots Will Change InfoSec Management

As though prioritizing patches isn't hard enough, how much worse will it be when the unpatched machine can stalk over to your desk, fold its arms, raise an eyebrow, and ask why its vulnerability is still waiting for a fix? Right now, artificial intelligence (AI) is just a tool — a tool we're barely using — but science-fiction always has its way. We already carry the "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in our pockets; soon enough we'll be throwing build-day parties for our robot co-workers.And it w...
Information Week •

Special Report: How Fragile is the Cloud, Really? | InformationWeek

A severe cloud infrastructure outage often feels less like a service disruption and more like an earthquake. One incident can barrel its way across an entire region, indiscriminately disrupting commerce, travel, medical care, and communication. Reverberations are felt far, far from the site of the event. There's nothing most of us can do to prevent it from happening or stop it once it starts. We just have to wait for the shaking to end and hope that none of our most valuable stuff got smashed.Th...