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AI of every flavour appears in the latest Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech: Composite, generative, responsible, embedded, not to mention AI augmented development and AI-augmented design. It is a veritable AI wonderland.
But it’s explainable AI that caught our eye here at iStart.
At a time when AI is having such an impact on society, there’s a growing expectation that how algorithms arrive at their decisions should be explainable – albeit without necessarily revealing the proprietary technical details.
Cracking open the black box of AI has never been more important – in fact, it’s well on the way to being a ‘must have’, but it’s a new field, without a universal definition – yet. Expect that to change though.
Oh, and if AI isn’t your thing, the Hype Cycle also has plenty of other technologies, including several that truly are a sign of the (pandemic) times we’re living in…
In other news:
- NZX’s week of woe: Unpacking the DDoS attacks
- NZ moves towards Consumer Data Right
- Avoiding knee jerk reactions and taking IT investment to the board room
- Public transport’s Covid tech challenge
- Weta Digital goes all in with AWS cloud
Enjoy the read,
Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.co.nz
GARTNER HYPE CYCLE
Explainable AI leads AI charge in Hype Cycle
But Covid changes DX priorities…
It makes the black box of AI understandable, and now Explainable AI is bounding ahead in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, with social distancing technologies and health passports also joining the lineup.
“Trust models are being replaced by algorithmic trust models to ensure privacy and security of data, source of assets and identity...”
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DDOS ATTACKS
The NZX offline, online, and off again
NZ follows Australia in facing onslaught of DDoS attacks…
The NZX’s public-facing website is back online again following a week of sustained repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
“We can confirm that we're now seeing attacks peak at almost 200 Gb/sec.”
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CONSUMER DATA RIGHTS
NZ looks to join Aussie in liberating user data
Consultation begins on national consumer data right…
Businesses are good at collecting user information. And as the digital revolution rolls on (and as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates digital adoption), they’re collecting more of it all the time.
“This will increase competition and innovation and lead to reduced prices and improved product offerings.”
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AWS CLOUD
Weta Digital makes leap to cloud with AWS
One cloud to rule them all…
AWS has won a high-profile customer – and its biggest NZ customer to date – with news that Weta Digital is dumping its own once-famed IT infrastructure to go all-in on AWS cloud.
“We can empower our artists to work safely and securely where they want without technical limitations.”
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COVID CHALLENGES
Failure to exercise caution risks Covid money pit
CIOs urged to do it once, do it right…
In the rush to digitally transform to cope with the Covid challenges, some companies are risking significant and unnecessary costs, and even reputational damage, according to a quality assurance company.
"In this environment, it is critical that leadership know exactly what they want, before IT investment decisions are made.”
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Wooing passengers back with a little tech help
Changing priorities, restoring trust and creating safer cities…
As transport operators look to woo passengers back post-Covid lockdowns, the call has gone out for the adoption of technologies to ease customer concerns and make transport more resilient.
“By utilising journey planning applications with the appropriate data analytics platform, agencies could add a social distancing feature.”
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