The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving, and one of the most exciting recent developments is the rise of small custom AI models. These models are smaller and more efficient than traditional AI models, and they offer a number of benefits, including: Lower cost: Small custom AI models are significantly cheaper to train than traditional AI models. This is because they require less data and compute resources. Improved privacy: Small custom AI models can be trained on data that is stored locally, which means that there is no need... 

In a landmark decision, a New York judge has sanctioned two lawyers for citing fake cases that were created by the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven Schwartz, had asked ChatGPT for examples of past cases to include in their legal filings, and the bot just made up some previous proceedings. The lawyers then slotted those made-up cases into their legal filings and submitted them to the court. The judge, Kevin Castel, found that the lawyers had “abandoned their responsibilities” and had “acted in bad faith”... 

University of New Mexico researchers find Bitcoin mining is environmentally unsustainable and are comparable to energy-intensive products such as crude oil, natural gas, and beef. If Bitcoin were to be adopted at a global scale for payments the destruction to the environment would be worse than all of the historic crude oil being used in combustion engines. Worse, is that fanboys of Bitcoin are using a common tactic deployed by global enterprises to cover their bad environmental behavior, by suggesting they are improving sustainability over time.... 

Let’s be honest, databases are a pain in the butt. First you need to install them on a Server, which needs to be managed, patched and secured, then you need to install the database, that needs to be managed, patched, secured, backed up and restored. The amount of clients I have worked for over the years that have been brought to their knees with the management of their databases estate is countless. The industry standard is to estimate the yearly cost of managing a database for your application is 2.5 times the development cost. So if your... 

It seems Indian IT staff are using their IT and language skills to rip off people in western nations. India once heralded as the the saviour to large corporations across the globe as the place for cost reduction when it came to Information Technology staff, now has a reputation problem with those trained up IT folk now turning to the dark side and running scams to steal money from individuals across the globe. Don’t get me wrong, they are certainly not the first nation to have problems with scammers, the Eastern Europeans have been at...