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ChatGPT can write ransomware, but what about incident response plans?

In a relatively short amount of time, generative artificial intelligence platforms such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have shown immense capabilities in how we can advance the way we use artificial intelligence in our everyday lives – from critical business functions to personal advice and recommendations. Whether developing SEO-friendly content, building marketing strategies, writing code or ...
ANALYST ANGLE

The brewing battle for data platform dominance

Given that data platforms have an estimated total addressable market in the tens of billions of dollars, it comes as no surprise that every vendor offering data-related solutions is striving to secure its share of this highly lucrative market. But the real question is: How do these different approaches compare? Today, on a new segment ...
GUEST COLUMN

Enterprise-grade generative AI automation: Unpacking the hype, understanding the challenges

The recent news about generative artificial intelligence is creating a lot of justifiable excitement around the new possibilities for human-computer interaction. However, as with past AI and machine learning hype cycles, realizing material benefits will be elusive if generative AI is treated as a magic wand, particularly in the context of enterprise-grade automation. Although generative ...
SPECIAL REPORT: AI, CYBERSECURITY AND THE SUPERCLOUD

Cybersecurity in the AI age: The power, the promise, the peril

Just two months after OpenAI LLC released its ChatGPT large language model into an open beta test, researchers at WithSecure Corp. published a report demonstrating how the chatbot could be used to write convincing email messages that encouraged recipients to share corporate secrets, create tweets that hyped once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities and even attack individuals through ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS

Connecting the dots on Snowflake’s Data Cloud ambitions

Over the past several months we’ve produced a number of in-depth analyses laying out our mental model for the future of data platforms. There are two core themes: 1) Data from people, places, things and activities in the real world drive applications, not people typing into a user interface; and 2) Informing and automating decisions means all ...

SodaGPT uses generative AI to ‘shift left’ on data quality testing

Data quality testing platform Soda Data NV today announced the launch of SodaGPT, a data management platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users define data quality expectations.  SodaGPT uses generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities and SodaCL’s domain-specific language capabilities to translate natural language queries into data quality tests.  “SodaGPT is the first generative ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS

HPE wants to turn supercomputing leadership into generative AI profits

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s recent announcement of an artificial intelligence cloud for large language models highlights a differentiated strategy that the company hopes will lead to sustained momentum in its high-performance computing business. Although we think HPE has some distinct advantages with respect to its supercomputing intellectual property, the public cloud players have a substantial ...
COMMENTARY

Rethinking your college major in the age of AI

I recently had a good friend call me with a dilemma and he asked me if I would talk to his son. His son was considering putting his third year in college on hold to pursue his computer animation career in Southern California. I got a call later that evening from my friend’s son and ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS

Uber’s real-time architecture represents the future of data apps: Meet the architects who built it

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an annual ...
ANALYSIS

Databricks’ Data + AI Summit will focus on next-gen data infrastructure for AI and more

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists. Discussions with data professionals in leading organizations show that Databricks Inc. is heavily influencing these emergent personas. We believe Databricks is embarking on a mission to broaden ...