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Cost Estimating NewsBrief: October 18, 2024
Know Your Data to Harness Federated Machine Learning
(MIT Sloan Management Review) Nowadays, deploying artificial intelligence no longer guarantees a competitive edge. What truly sets companies apart is access to diverse, extensive, high-quality data that enhances their AI system’s performance compared with that of their competitors. But concerns over data privacy can limit the use of unique, relevant data for analysis. This problem can be alleviated by means of privacy-preserving federated learning. Read More
Google announces AI offering for classified environments
(NextGov/FCW) Google will be offering a version of its Gemini AI model capable of working within classified environments early next year, the tech giant announced Wednesday. A “large percentage” of the United States government’s military and intelligence enterprise has expressed interest in a specialized, air-gapped version of Google’s Gemini AI model, signaling high demand from analysts wanting to support their day-to-day workload with AI tools that have stormed the consumer tech market over the past two years, according to Ron Bushar, who heads public sector solutions for Google-owned cyber intelligence vendor Mandiant. Read More
Using AI to find the smallest and closest exoplanets around sun-like stars
(Space Daily) An international research team led by Professor Jian Ge from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has announced the discovery of five new ultra-short-period planets (USPs), each smaller than Earth and orbiting their stars in less than one day. The discoveries were made using data from the Kepler space telescope, originally released in 2017. The breakthrough came through the application of an advanced deep learning algorithm that combines GPU phase folding with convolutional neural networks. Read More
The Rise of the Chief AI Officer
(Government Executive) President Joe Biden’s October 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence mandated that agencies officially designate a chief artificial intelligence officer responsible for managing the coordination, innovation and risk management of AI within their respective agencies. Though a few agencies had already named CAIOs on their own, the order formalized the authority and responsibilities of such positions. Different agencies have taken varied approaches to setting up the CAIO role. Some have pursued a dual-hat function, where the chief data officer or chief technology officer assumes the mandated responsibilities. Read More
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