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George Lawton is a technology journalist that has been covering the technology industry for the last three decades. He is currently focused on digital transformation, enterprise automation, digital twins, privacy, and sustainable development. year He has written over 3,000 stories about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health, and other areas. In the early 1990s, he helped build Biosphere II, sailed a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, and herded cattle on a 200,000-acre ranch in Australia.

Articles by George Lawton

Something for the weekend - why we should all be appalled by Meta’s latest super-intelligence gambit

Meta is in talks to quasi-acquire Scale AI to create a new lab for “super-intelligence.” Although Scale AI pitches itself as “innovating on data,” some might argue that its real innovation is optimizing data labelling 'sweatshops' for data sourced from...where? If this is the future of super-intelligence, I suggest we should all be alarmed.

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Why it's time to move beyond qubits for assessing quantum progress

IBM has revised its quantum computing roadmap, placing resilience and fault tolerance at the center. The race towards practical quantum computing needs to shift the emphasis from more physical qubits to quantum operations. Solving realistic engineering challenges could achieve quantum advantage by 2029.

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How IXI is building a platform that could improve vision rather than correcting or augmenting it

IXI CEO and Co-Founder Niko Eiden explains how the firm plans to disrupt the $400 billion vision correction industry. Its approach has important implications for the future of smart glasses that help us to engage with the world rather than isolate us. It will also unlock opportunities for studying and improving user experiences, human performance, and health.

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Growing better brains - why we need to re-think the neuron for more trustworthy and efficient AI

Verses demonstrates progress in leveraging AI models using Bayesian networks and active inference that are significantly smaller, more energy efficient, and honest than Deep Neural Network approaches. It will also simplify continuous and de-centralized learning but require re-thinking AI development processes.

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CamundaCon – proof (again!) of why enterprises need to focus on AI strategic value over cost-cutting

Bernhard Schaffrik, Principal Analyst, Forrester, argues enterprises should focus on strategic opportunities of generative and agentic AI over cost savings and headcount reduction. This includes breaking silos and better process orchestration.

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Why governance musts be key to navigating the agentic AI imperatives - important learnings from new data from Gravitee

A recent Gravitee survey has seen a significant uptick in agentic AI investments that promise a new tier of automation tooling. Linus Hakansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee, explains why governance will be essential for building the AI we want, even at this early stage.

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