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September 2023

AI-Enhanced Features to Transform your Business - Do More with Qlik Episode 46

Insight Advisor – our intelligent AI-assistant supports a variety of advanced insight generation and automation experiences including search driven insights, conversational analytics, and analysis types – our unique framework for choosing a type of advanced analysis and generating visualizations, NLG, and even smart sheets. You’ll get a look at key driver analysis, to uncover the factors driving a selected metric. And you’ll get a deeper dive into how you can customize insight generation and natural language processing through our business logic layer.

Generative AI Policies: 7 Issues Leaders Should Watch

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a game-changer, bringing with it the promise of unparalleled efficiency and the potential for entrée into new markets. As generative AI continues to soar in popularity, organizations are eager to tap into its transformative power. However, this enthusiasm should come with a side of caution. It’s critical that organizations develop a strong generative AI policy so the allure of new technology doesn’t lead to devastating mishaps.

AI Won't Replace Humans - But It Will Change How We Make Decisions

Have you heard the phrase “AI won't replace humans - but humans with AI will replace humans without AI”? I personally love this quote because it perfectly encapsulates the nature of the anticipated workforce shift from the rise of generative AI. As I wrote back in 2017, the power of AI is not about machines supplanting human abilities, but rather about a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI. I think the Star Trek analogy I used then is standing the test of time…

Current '23 Keynote: Streaming into the Future - The Evolution & Impact of Data Streaming Platforms

Jay Kreps (Confluent Co-Founder and CEO), Shaun Clowes (Confluent CPO), and data streaming leaders from organizations like NASA, Warner Brothers, and Notion explore the past, present, and future of data streaming. They will address two key questions: how can organizations integrate data across their applications to deliver better experiences, and how can they embed data and analytics into every part of the business to drive better decision-making?

How to Mask PII Before LLM Training

Generative AI has recently emerged as a groundbreaking technology and businesses have been quick to respond. Recognizing its potential to drive innovation, deliver significant ROI and add economic value, business adoption is rapid and widespread. They are not wrong. A research report by Quantum Black, AI by McKinsey, titled "The Economic Potential of Generative AI”, estimates that generative AI could unlock up to $4.4 trillion in annual global productivity.

How To Setup Selenium From Scratch Using ChatGPT | Sidharth Shukla | #seleniumtraining #chatgpt

In this informative video, Sidharth Shukla guides viewers through the process of setting up Selenium from scratch using the power of ChatGPT. Sidharth provides step-by-step instructions and practical tips on how to configure Selenium for web automation, all with the assistance of ChatGPT. Whether you're new to Selenium or looking to refine your automation skills, this video offers valuable insights to help you get started on your Selenium journey.

9 Top Testing Trends to Watch in 2024

While AI and machine learning have been industry buzzwords for a while, they are now becoming fundamental to software testing. Machine learning algorithms are making it easier to sift through logs, identify patterns, and even predict where bugs are most likely to occur. As these technologies mature, the role of AI in software testing will undoubtedly expand.

6 Best Ecommerce AI Tools You Should Master in 2023

Setting up and running a successful ecommerce store has never been easier. Tools like Shopify have always kept things simple, but the rise of AI has made it extremely straightforward for anyone to create various assets required to run a successful ecommerce store. These include landing pages, images, ads, and so many other things. The rise in AI has led to the introduction of hundreds and thousands of new SaaS tools.

AI Integration: 6 Mistakes to Avoid

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. ChatGPT was the ultimate proof of concept, demonstrating the power of large language models and AI in easy-to-understand terms. So naturally, business leaders are eager to unlock the productivity benefits that come from integrating AI into business operations. But despite their eagerness, organizations still need to do some work to prepare for AI integration.

Leveraging test automation and AI: How banks and building societies can innovate themselves into a sustainable future

First published on the BSA site along with DXC Technology Data analytics and generative AI are revolutionizing the approach organizations take to software development, testing, and delivery, enabling standardization and scalability across the board, including test automation and management. Like other sectors, financial institutions struggle to match the rate of transformation necessary to maintain a competitive edge.

AI Like a Rockstar

Although it might seem a little early, I was just thinking: what will 2023 be remembered for? For many it will be the year that Beyonce and Taylor Swift took to stages around the world and pushed the boundaries of live music (I’m a confirmed Swiftie if you didn’t know). It is also the year of AI. When I speak with customers, they all talk about how they are steering towards AI adoption.

23 Best Free NLP Datasets for Machine Learning

NLP is a field of AI that enables machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a way that is both meaningful and contextually relevant. Recently, ChatGPT and similar applications have created a surge in consumer and business interest in NLP. Now, many organizations are trying to incorporate NLP into their offerings.

Introducing Choreo TestGPT: Redefining the API Testing Landscape with AI

We're delighted to unveil Choreo TestGPT, Choreo's innovative approach to API testing powered by Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Azure OpenAI. This allows users to test APIs running or proxied via Choreo using natural language, serving as a complementary tool to traditional testing methods. It offers a convenient way to quickly test endpoints without delving deeply into API specifications or crafting intricate JSON payloads.

AI Process Automation: 4 Predictions for the Age of AI

Generative AI seems like it's shaking things up for process automation, like other industries. But in reality, artificial intelligence is less of a shake-up and more of a natural complement to the capabilities that support a process automation initiative. Imagine a world where AI can turn a PDF into a digital interface, or sort all the emails in an inbox and generate responses for an employee to review.

Perforce Adds Generative AI to Test Data Automation to Increase Precision, Coverage, and Shift Left Velocity

BlazeMeter's new Test Data Pro adds generative AI in three significant ways to auto-generate test data, increase data profiling precision, and enable natural language for test data rule creation.

Low-Code AI Tools: 5 Key Benefits

Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a seismic shift in the business landscape, largely due to the surge in popularity of large language models like ChatGPT. From predictive models that foster better decision-making to generative AI code tools that enable teams to build applications faster, AI offers incredible benefits to organizations. Businesses need to embrace this technology or risk falling behind their competitors.

Fine-Tuning a Foundation Model for Multiple Tasks

In this video we discuss the reasons why fine-tuning is needed to create mroe contextual accurate LLMs, and the methods that you can do to accomplish this. We also give a demo of our newest Applied ML Prototype (AMP) which demonstrates how to implement LLM fine-tuning jobs that make use of the QLoRA and Accelerate implementations available in the PEFT open-source library from Huggingface and an example application that swaps the fine-tuned adapters in real time for inference targetting different tasks. Learn more at cloudera.com#ai #ml.

Marketing Success in the Age of AI Requires a Modern Marketing Data Stack

Data is essential to marketing. It’s how we know our audience and measure campaign outcomes. It shows us where to adjust a campaign on the fly, for even better results. But working with data is increasingly complex, and having the right stack of technologies is invaluable.

AI and Process Automation: 7 Ways to Use It in Your Business

Artificial intelligence has the potential to make work incredibly efficient—which means it’s the perfect complement to process automation technology. Process automation, and related approaches like business process management, already aim to improve productivity by automating what can and should be automated.

Staige AI-Enhanced - Spark Your Own AI Innovations

Qlik Staige, a unified strategy to provide AI-enhanced solutions to enterprises while confidently embracing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Qlik Staige helps customers innovate and move faster by making secure, governed AI and automation part of everything they can do with Qlik – from experimenting with and implementing generative AI models, to developing AI-powered predictions to improve future outcomes, to driving better insights into their business.

Not All Natural Language Query (NLQ) Models Are Created Equal: Part 3 - Power BI Q&A

In part one of this series, we discussed the evolution of Yellowfin’s Guided NLQ solution and focused on aspects of Guided NLQ that stand apart from the competition. In part two, we then compared Guided NLQ to Sisense's equivalent NLQ solution, Sisense Simply Ask. In part three, we will look deeper at another competitor’s NLQ offering, Microsoft Power BI and its Q&A feature.

Generative AI vs. Large Language Models: What's the Difference?

What are the differences between generative AI vs. large language models? How are these two buzzworthy technologies related? In this article, we’ll explore their connection. To help explain the concept, I asked ChatGPT to give me some analogies comparing generative AI to large language models (LLMs), and as the stand-in for generative AI, ChatGPT tried to take all the personality for itself.

Red Hat + Cloudera | A Hybrid Data Platform for Generative AI for FSI

Red Hat and Cloudera have joined forces to enable customers to take advantage of the cloud with full confidence, especially in the financial services industry, where data protection is critical. Red Hat Payment Industry Lead, Ramon Villarreal describes how collaborating with Cloudera provides leading financial services organizations with data resiliency, performance and expedited time to market as they leverage the cloud to move and manipulate massive amounts of data.

Game Developers Weigh In on Talent Shortages and Generative AI in Perforce Annual State of Game Development Report

Perforce Software announces release of the 2023 State of Game Development & Design Report. The annual industry report, conducted together with Incredibuild, the leading software development acceleration platform, gathers insights across AAA and Indie game development professionals to provide perspective on the current state of the gaming industry, emerging tools and platforms, along with opportunities that lie ahead.

Securing the Future: Navigating Risks with Large Language Models (LLMs)

Large language models (LLMs) have recently garnered immense popularity and global attention due to their versatile applications across various industries. The advent of ChatGPT in late 2022, particularly resonating with Gen Z, exemplifies their impressive capabilities. Nowadays, the cumbersome process of navigating automated phone menus (pressing 1 or 2) for customer support is becoming less desirable, with chatbots like Siri and Alexa offering a more user-friendly alternative.

Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. Functions or procedures written by users in these languages are executed inside of Snowpark’s secure sandbox environment, which runs on the warehouse.

A Complete Guide To AI/ML Software Testing

There is no doubt about it: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has changed the way we think about software testing. Ever since the introduction of the disruptive AI-powered language model ChatGPT, a wide range of AI-augmented technologies have also emerged, and the benefits they brought surely can’t be ignored. In this article, we will guide you to leverage AI/ML in software testing to bring your QA game to the next level.

15+ Best ChatGPT Prompts for Software Testing

We’ve got something truly special in store for you. We reached out to our expansive testing community, consisting of 40,000 testers, and posed a question about leveraging GPT prompts for various software testing scenarios and tips for effective prompting. The response was nothing short of astounding, and today, we’re thrilled to bring you the incredible insights we gathered. Prepare to be amazed as we unveil 15+ best ChatGPT prompts for software testing enthusiasts like you.

Snowpark ML: The 'Easy Button' for Open Source LLM Deployment in Snowflake

Companies want to train and use large language models (LLMs) with their own proprietary data. Open source generative models such as Meta’s Llama 2 are pivotal in making that possible. The next hurdle is finding a platform to harness the power of LLMs. Snowflake lets you apply near-magical generative AI transformations to your data all in Python, with the protection of its out-of-the-box governance and security features.

Creating a data-driven culture with self service and data literacy

In this segment, Geraldine Wong, CDO of GXS Bank, explains how her bank's data strategy aims to promote inclusion through superior data insights and AI, but achieving this requires building a data-driven culture by providing employees the right tools, access, and knowledge about the data.