Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter at Computerworld
A senior reporter for Computerworld magazine. I cover Artificial Intelligence, and Workplace Issues. I also love woodworking and travel.
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1 week ago |
computerworld.com | Lucas Mearian
Only 1% of enterprise data has so far been accessed by generative AI (genAI) models because of a lack of integration and coordination between numerous data centers, cloud services and edge environments, according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. And for that to change, smaller, special-purpose genAI models tailored to specific domain tasks such as HR, sales, retail and manufacturing, will needed.
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1 week ago |
computerworld.com | Lucas Mearian
Although the nation’s overall unemployment rate held steady in April, technology worker hiring slowed and unemployment rose markedly. Tech sector companies reduced staffing by a net 7,000 positions in April, an analysis of data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed.
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1 week ago |
computerworld.com | Lucas Mearian
At Meta’s first LlamaCon AI event last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI now writes up to 30% of the company’s code — and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his company is developing an AI model to create future programs for its AI systems. “Our bet is sort of that in the next year probably…, maybe half the development is going to be done by AI, as opposed to people, and then that will just kind of increase from there,” Zuckerberg said.
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2 weeks ago |
computerworld.com | Lucas Mearian
President Donald J. Trump recently signed an executive order to bring AI into K–12 education to boost literacy around the technology and create a new White House task force to lead the effort. The task force plans to form public-private partnerships with AI experts to develop online resources for K-12 AI literacy and critical thinking and will seek industry commitments and federal funding to support the effort; the goal is to ensure resources are available for K-12 instruction within 180 days.
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2 weeks ago |
computerworld.com | Lucas Mearian
AI is either taking over routine tasks typically performed by younger employees or requiring them to learn how to use the tech to be more effective in their jobs. Nearly four in 10 Americans, for instance, believe genAI could diminish the number of available jobs as it advances, according to a study released in October by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
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New research shows that many workers, especially younger ones, feel their degrees aren't needed as employers shift toward skills-based hiring over formal education. https://t.co/nZRo4Ub9Oc
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