Jeffrey Burt

1 week ago | nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt

For decades, discussions around quantum computing for decades has felt similar to family driving vacations, with someone in the back seat constantly asking “are we there yet?” And like those long drives, the answer usually has been “not yet, but soon,” with “soon” doing a lot of the work in the reply. That said, the vibe around the technology seems comparably different these days, with significant steps seemingly being made every week toward creating a useful, fault-tolerant quantum system.

3 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt

Last year, amid all the talk of the “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs that were launched at last year’s GPU Technicval Conference, Nvidia also introduced the idea of Nvidia Inference Microservices, or NIMs, which are prepackaged enterprise-grade generative AI software stacks that companies can use as virtual copilots to add custom AI software to their own applications.

3 weeks ago | devops.com | Jeffrey Burt

AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. They’re also an issue for developers using AI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages that don’t exist.

1 month ago | devops.com | Jeffrey Burt

GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows. The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week said its security campaigns, which were released in public preview in October 2024, are now generally available to GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security developers.

1 month ago | nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt

It is funny how companies can find money – lots of money – when they think IT infrastructure spending can save them money, make them money, or do both at the same time. This is the hope with AI, and everyone is trying to benefit from it in those ways. GenAI, which is where a lot of the excitement is coming from, is evolving from prompt-and-respond chatty interfaces to more sophisticated AI agents and reasoning models that are more thoughtful and can be entrusted to take actions.