Best TechTarget Editorial Podcasts (2025)

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Not yet three years old, GenAI has made a dramatic impact on society, law and art 42:40

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In this two-year anniversary episode of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, Michael Bennett discusses the rapid evolution of generative AI technology, and its implications for society, legal frameworks and creative industries. He highlights the public's growing awareness and understanding of AI, the legal challenges surrounding copyright and fair…

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News Now: Trump's AI plan and its impact on tech industry and users 20:38

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In this special news edition of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, government reporter Makenzie Holland discusses President Trump's AI action plan and executive orders aimed at promoting AI development and ensuring U.S. dominance in the AI race. Featuring: Makenzie Holland, Informa TechTarget senior news writer In today’s episode, senior new dir…

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Database vendor MongoDB embraces GenAI 26:35

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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget, Ben Flast, of NoSQL database vendor MongoDB, discusses the company's rapid integration of generative AI technologies, including vector search and real-time updates through Atlas Stream Processing. He emphasizes the importance of community engagement and the role of agentic AI in e…

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Diverse data, ethical use key to responsible AI engineering 35:59

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The lack of diversity in AI systems has been an issue since the birth of the technology. In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget, Karen Panetta discusses the importance of diversity in tech, and the ethical implications of AI. She emphasizes the need for inclusive design in engineering and AI systems, the role of digital…

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Tech pioneer Alan Trefler of Pegasystems: GenAI added creativity, speed and scale to workflows 33:04

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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast, Shaun Sutner and Esther Ajao interview Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of Pegasystems, discussing the evolution of AI technology, particularly generative AI, and its integration into business processes. Trefler shares insights on the differences between design time and runtime applications of AI, the impor…

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Exploring Nvidia’s approach to AI factories and AI supercomputers 37:24

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Nvidia's hardware strategies are powering AI technologies. Recently, networking has become the critical backbone of modern AI systems. In today’s episode, Kevin Deierling provides practical insights for enterprises looking to implement AI technologies effectively. Deierling contrasts traditional data centers with the emerging concept of AI factorie…

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Using GenAI and AI agents as key assets in work management 28:27

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Generative AI has led to many fears about the workforce. However, for work management platform vendor Asana, GenAI and agentic AI can be effective tools in the workforce. Instead of replacing humans, AI technology can work alongside humans. Despite the potential for collaboration, not all tasks require the use of AI technology. Featuring: Saket Sri…

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Evolution of Grammarly AI and the future of work 36:54

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As an AI writing assistant, Grammarly has used AI technology from its inception. The popularity of large language models has led to a shift in which the writing assistant vendor moved from natural language processing to including large language models to help enterprise employees improve their writing as they work. This has led Grammarly to see a p…

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Responsible AI and the need for AI safety standards 33:14

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A key truth about AI is that regulation has long lagged innovation. However, this has not removed the responsibility of enterprises to deploy AI systems responsibly or for AI vendors to create responsible systems. What are the key metrics to understanding a safe AI system? Featuring: Stuart Battersby, CTO at Chatterbox Labs, vendor of a quantitativ…

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Resilient AI: Siemens' journey into industrial AI and generative technologies 29:32

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Industrial AI is less familiar than consumer AI, but represents a critical and growing sector within AI’s influence. What unique AI applications are surfacing in this area? Featuring: Olympia Brikis, director of Industrial AI research at Siemens In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Understanding Industrial AI and its distinctions from consumer AI AI an…

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AWS developing high-performing autonomous AI agents 32:34

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Traditional, generative, agentic—in the past couple of decades, AI metamorphosed into an indisposable tool for enterprises wanting to streamline their processes and improve their impact. In this episode, we dive into the different types of AI, best practices for implementation, and the challenges faced in the industry. Featuring: Deepak Singh, Vice…

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How the legal profession can benefit from AI technology 39:45

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In the couple of years since the popularization of ChatGPT, generative AI technology has quickly taken hold in the legal profession. It has backfired in some cases, such as when an attorney filed a legal brief written with ChatGPT's help and the AI platform hallucinated some of the cases in the brief. That case and others have led some law firms to…

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Good data strategy is needed for GenAI 38:19

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Without a good data strategy, generative AI becomes unusable technology for enterprises. This was true when ChatGPT started becoming popular, and it is even more accurate years later. The most recent example is the AI Chinese startup DeepSeek. While most AI cloud providers like Google, AWS and Microsoft now offer the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, ma…

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Multilingual LLM revolves around synthetic data 33:17

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While some vendors are working to ensure large language models become better at reasoning, other AI vendors are making them compatible in multiple languages. Writer is a provider of a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises. While the vendor provides a generative AI platform that enterprises can use to build generative AI capabilities int…

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Cisco generative AI strategy hinges on CX and agents 36:47

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The contact center world is a difficult place, packed with frustration and stress. Digital communications giant Cisco sees its mission as easing that experience for human contact center workers and the customers they deal with every day. For that undertaking, the vendor has seized on generative AI and agentic AI as the vehicles to both automate and…

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Box content management generative AI route is model-agnostic 40:10

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Box has been in the AI game for a long time. But when generative AI mushroomed into a transformative force in the tech world, the cloud content management vendor opted to turn to specialists in the new and fast-growing technology to power the arsenal of tools in its platform. "We've been doing AI for many years. But the really cool thing that happe…

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Autonomous AI agents on the rise 45:42

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This is the year of AI agents. The last few months of 2024 brought much talk about and expectations for AI agents that can operate autonomously and semi-autonomously. Many vendors have capitalized on the enthusiasm to introduce new agentic products: Salesforce came out with Agentforce, and Microsoft introduced Copilot agents. With 2025 here, questi…

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Moveworks uses AI to grow its employee automation platform 47:02

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The AI application startup, which was founded in 2016 and was valued at more than $2.1 billion in 2021, uses a reasoning engine to help employees search for information across the enterprise. Since its inception, a key ingredient in the company's success has been AI and generative AI technology. "We were the first company after Google to deploy BER…

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Oracle generative AI approach based on Cohere, Meta models 43:40

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When generative AI became the next big thing in tech, enterprise software giant Oracle bet heavily on a startup to provide it with foundation and large language models rather than scramble to develop its own. That then-fledgling company was Cohere. Founded in 2019, the generative AI vendor raised $270 million in a Series C round, and its investors …

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Creating a clean generative AI data set with Getty Images 37:19

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At the beginning of the wave of generative AI hype, many feared that generative models would replace the jobs of creatives like artists and photographers. With generative AI models such as Dall-E and Midjourney seemingly creating unique works of art and images, some artists found themselves at a disadvantage. Some say the generative systems took th…

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AI industry could see regulation rollback under Trump 40:22

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President-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign offered clues about how his administration would handle the fast-growing AI sector. One thing is clear: AI, to the extent that it is regulated, is headed for deregulation. "It's likely going to mean less regulation for the AI industry," said Makenzie Holland, senior news writer at TechTarget…

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Exploring the role of AI in beauty and haircare 42:42

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When Candace Mitchell was young, she discovered a love for computers and haircare. Her interest in technology led her to study coding in high school, leading her to build websites. Meanwhile, she also considered going to cosmetology school. She found a middle ground in beauty technology, later becoming co-founder and CEO of Myavana, a Black-owned b…

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Closing the gap between open source and closed AI models 46:12

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Open source AI models are closing the gap in the debate between open and closed models. Since the introduction of Meta Llama generative AI models in February 2023, more enterprises have started to run their AI applications on open source models. Cloud providers like Google have also noticed this shift and have accommodated enterprises by introducin…

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Enterprise adoption of generative AI is accelerating 47:30

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Nearly two years after the mass consumerization of generative AI with the introduction of ChatGPT, the technology is now moving from experimentation to implementation. A recent survey by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group found that generative AI adoption is growing. The analyst firm surveyed 832 professionals worldwide and found that adoption …

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Google head of product on generative AI strategy 45:50

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As one of the top cloud providers, Google Cloud also stands at the forefront of the generative AI market. Over the past two years, Google has been enmeshed in a push and pull with its chief competitors -- AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI -- in the race to dominate generative AI. Google has introduced a slate of new generative AI products in the past year,…

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AT&T's David C. Williams on how generative AI will force diversity in AI systems 27:42

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The growth of generative AI has put diversity front and center. In the last year, there have been concerns that GenAI systems such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini are not trained with enough diverse data sets. For instance, the introduction of the Lensa app two years ago allowed people of color to generate avatars of themselves. Concerns were raised, …

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How talent intelligence platforms will change HR 28:59

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Artificial intelligence has long enabled advanced capabilities in HR, such as automated video interviews and predictive analytics for recruitment, learning and performance management. But AI adoption has accelerated rapidly in recent years, thanks to the rise of talent intelligence platforms that apply AI to every step in the talent management proc…

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Generative AI fuels growth of online deepfakes threatening organizations and election integrity 42:20

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The growth of deepfakes in the past few years is a threat to not only organizations but also the U.S. general election in November. Information security vendor Pindrop saw a sharp rise in deepfakes in the first few months of the year compared to the previous year. Deepfakes of Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, President J…

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Examining the tech stances of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, plus J.D. Vance 1:05:36

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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is a product of two decades of California politics who has longstanding ties to the tech and AI communities in her home state. But in her role as President Joe Biden's vice president during the past four years, Harris was tasked with overseeing Biden's executive order on AI, with its emphasis on gover…

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A year in review with the Targeting AI podcast 44:08

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For the past year, the Targeting AI podcast has explored a broad range of AI topics, none more than the fast-evolving and sometimes startling world of generative AI technology. From the first guest, Michael Bennett, AI policy adviser at Northeastern University, the podcast has focused intently on the popularization of generative AI, while also touc…

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AWS GenAI strategy based on multimodel ecosystem, plus Titan, Q and Bedrock 21:35

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AWS is quietly building a generative AI ecosystem in which its customers can use many large language models from different vendors, or choose to employ the tech giant's own models, Q personal assistants, GenAI platforms and Trainium and Inferentia AI chips. AWS says it has more than130,000 partners, and hundreds of thousands of AWS customers use AW…

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Walmart uses generative AI for payroll, employee experience 23:55

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The biggest global retailer sees itself as a tech giant. And with 25,000 engineers and its own software ecosystem, Walmart isn't waiting to see how GenAI technology will play out. The company is already providing its employees -- referred to by the retailer as associates -- with in-house GenAI tools such as the My Assistant conversational chatbot. …

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Lenovo stakes claim to generative AI at the edge 42:41

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While Apple garnered wide attention for its recent embrace of generative AI for iPhones and Macs, rival end point device maker Lenovo already had a similar strategy in place. The multinational consumer products vendor, based in China, is known for its ThinkPad line of laptops and for mobile phones made by its Motorola subsidiary. But Lenovo also ha…

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The importance of open source in GenAI 50:06

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The rise of generative AI has also brought renewed interest and growth in open source technology. But the question of open source is still "open" in generative AI. Sometimes, the code is open -- other times, the training data and weights are open. A leader in the open source large language model arena is Meta. However, despite the popularity of the…

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A vision of an AI future that may not include humans 47:04

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In intellectual tech circles, a debate over artificial general intelligence and the AI future is raging. Dan Faggella is in the middle of this highly charged discussion, arguing on various platforms that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be here sooner than many people think, and it will likely take the place of human civilization. "It is …

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Salesforce open model AI strategy aims for trust, automation 36:26

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Salesforce was an early adopter of generative AI, seizing on large language model technology from OpenAI to integrate into its own applications. But the CRM and CX giant quickly evolved an open model strategy. It now gives customers access to multiple third-party LLMs while providing its own AI trust layer to try to ensure that Salesforce users can…

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Examining developers' perception of AI tools at GitHub 38:51

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The explosive popularity of generative AI has been accompanied by the question of whether developers are finding great uses for the new technology. While the hype around GenAI has grown, the perception of its usefulness for developers has changed. "Developers are eager to kind of embrace AI more into their complex tasks, but not for every part, and…

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Fostering a positive culture in the age of hybrid work 26:35

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more people than ever before began working almost exclusively from home. Now, in the pandemic's aftermath, many employees continue to work remotely several days a week while employers struggle to find ways to entice them back into the office. This emerging hybrid work model is challenging managers to set reali…

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Musicians and the fight for fairness in the age of GenAI 37:32

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The growth of generative AI technology has led to concerns about the data AI technology companies use to train their systems. Authors, journalists and now musicians have accused generative AI vendors of using copyrighted material to train large language models. More than 200 musicians signed an open letter released Tuesday by the Artists Rights All…

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Security, bias risks are inherent in GenAI black box models 37:20

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From bias to hallucinations, it is apparent that generative AI models are far from perfect and present risks. Most recently, tech giants -- notably Google -- have run into trouble after their models made egregious mistakes that reflect the inherent problem with the data sets upon which large language models (LLMs) are based. Microsoft faced critici…

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A look at independent AI hardware and software vendor SambaNova's open source strategy 50:43

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AI hardware and software provider SambaNova Systems seeks to put enterprise customers in charge of their data while using open source models. A smaller competitor of AI hardware vendor Nvidia, the AI vendor is trying to distinguish itself by helping enterprises train and deploy large models that they can't train on Nvidia's systems. "What we try to…

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It's looking like 2024 is the year of ROI for generative AI 50:00

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Generative AI vendors and investors have turned their attention from last year's innovative frenzy to ROI, monetizing the language models that have revolutionized the tech world in a short time. That's the outlook on 2024 from Kashyap Kompella, founder and analyst at RPA2AI Research, who was a guest on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Edito…

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AI, hiring and the need for humans in the loop 49:57

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The fear of AI technology eliminating thousands of jobs or affecting the hiring process continues to prevail in the age of generative AI. While many believe that AI technology will augment workers, some are already seeing the effect of AI in the job market. Indeed, tech companies and other large enterprises have laid off thousands of workers in rec…

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B Corp Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism 33:32

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Data labeling and annotation vendor Sama seeks to make an impact not only in the tech market but also in parts of the world where it's hard for people to partake in the digital economy. As a women-led B Corporation chartered to do social and environmental good, Sama employs numerous people in countries such as Kenya and has created, said CEO Wendy …

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How Will Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Acquisition of Juniper Networks Benefit Customers? 17:56

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks would benefit Juniper shareholders, but what about its customers? In this week’s podcast, Editor At Large Antone Gonsalves and Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte discuss whether Juniper customers are the losers in the deal.By TechTarget Editorial

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Examining Microsoft venture fund M12’s AI investment approach 44:37

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In the age of generative AI, Microsoft has become one of the lead investors after its massive investment in ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Since Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the AI market has seen changes including a tilt toward smaller and open source AI language models. Meanwhile, the tech giant's venture fund, M12, (which did not take …

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How technology improves the employee experience at ServiceNow 20:30

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In recent years, HR leaders have strived to use information technology not just to digitize HR processes, but to democratize HR technology, transforming it into a tool every employee can use for personal and professional development. Some practitioners go a big step further by redesigning digital systems with the express goal of improving the overa…

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Guiding generative AI toward responsible use 45:34

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When Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner started working on their book, The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, generative AI had not yet exploded into the public consciousness. But after OpenAI released its blockbuster AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in October 2022, the co-authors went back to revise their narrative to accommodate the sudden em…

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How Do Businesses Justify Gen AI Spending in 2024? 16:34

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In 2024, businesses will quickly shift from testing to implementing generative AI in customer-facing apps. Due to high costs, GenAI providers must offer clear pricing, says Mike Leone, a TechTarget Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Related stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366563445/Small-language-models-an-emerging-GenAI…

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Looking ahead: 2024 will see generative AI mature 1:12:09

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With 2023 being the year for generative AI, 2024 will be the year the technology grows and develops. Many industry experts think that instead of the hype slowing, it will blossom. "In 2024, there will not be a trough of disillusionment with this tech, ever," said Mike Leone, an analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group, on the Targeting AI …