A job that artificial intelligence cannot replace. A potential court ruling that could shake the foundations of the web as we know it. And, how good is the mileage on your supercomputer?
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I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsday in the US – here’s today’s top tech news.
How many employees does it take to equal a CEO salary?
According to an article in the Register, HPE’s latest 10k filing suggests the answer is 271. CEO Antonio Neri’s compensation package was valued at just over $17 million in 2022, with most of it in option awards. The average salary of an HPE employee is approximately $64,000. Difference
Neri, who replaced Meg Whitman, took a pay cut from her $19 million compensation in 2021.
Tarek Robbati, HPE’s CFO made just over 8 million and chief operating officer John Schulze was just shy of 8 million last year. Chief People Officer Alan May earned a little less than 5 million.
What did he do to earn? Well, HPE grew revenue 3 percent annually to $28.5 billion, which is up from the previous years. not as good as a 29 percent gain Calendar 2022 as seen by AWS But important.
Although HPE has suffered somewhat from supply chain issues, it achieved a 17 percent increase in Greenlake’s offering as a service to $936 million. Not as strong as the 36 percent increase in the prior year But healthy growth in an area that HPE expects to compete with other major cloud players.
Source: register
Looking for a new job when AI replaces you? How about “quick engineer”. That’s what ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman recommended in an interview with Axios.
As everyone who plays with ChatGPT knows, the results you get vary greatly with the quality of the questions you ask.
ChatGPT agreed and told us: “A quick engineer reference to ChatGPT and generative AI There will be someone who has expertise in directing the output of the language model and crafting effective signals to achieve the desired results.”
The job is already being posted with Speedy Engineer as a job or as a critical skill. There are many platforms that are set up as “prompt search engines” such as Prompt Hero, Promptist, and Kriya. Remote course company Udemy is also offering classes.
Stephen Fragg, founder of a chatbot-training business Quick yes!told Axios,
“It’s like selling jeans during a gold rush. It’s not actually going out and digging for gold.”
This is a sign that Overall, the merchants who supplied the gold mines The Klondike Gold Rush made more money than the miners. While some miners struck it rich and found significant amounts of gold, the vast majority did not and struggled to make ends meet.
On the other hand, merchants such as Levi Strauss, who sold supplies such as clothing, equipment, and food to the miners, made significant profits.
How do we know this? Obviously, we can have a career as an accelerated engineer.
Source: axios
Google’s lawyers have warned that a possible decision by the US Supreme Court “could reshape the Internet.”
The case of Gonzalez v. Google was brought by the family of a terrorist victim. They argue that YouTube violated the federal Anti-Terrorism Act because its algorithm recommended ISIS videos to users and helped spread the terrorist group’s message.
Google says it is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects the platform from legal action over user-generated content. It also protects them if they delete content. Section 230 has faced court challenges for more than 25 years since it was passed in 1996.
But there are indications from the court that judges may be questioning this immunity of prosecutors, echoing similar questions from the US Congress. Understandably, Internet companies are concerned about the pitfalls of that security and the potential liability for the consequences of their algorithms.
Experts argue that the issues raised are not simple and any decision can have real ramifications, which lawmakers and even Supreme Court justices may be highly unqualified to judge. This was made clear in an exchange between Google’s lawyer and Chief Justice John Roberts who asked. “Will Google collapse and the Internet be destroyed if Google is prevented from posting what it knows is defamatory?”
“No Google,” replied Blatt, but other, smaller websites, yes. Blatt was referring to the fear that the removal of the provisions of Section 230, if done as a way to reign in the increasingly unpopular “big tech”, could inadvertently lead to the creation of websites ranging from WordPress blogs to Reddit or new Everything up to the sites can be affected. Open Source Mastodon.
Justice may be blind in a digital economy, but can it afford to be technologically illiterate?
Source: deadline And republic of tech
In a related story, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has promised to make Twitter’s algorithm open source by next week. This is not a new idea, Musk has been advocating it for some time. It may seem counter-intuitive for a company to make something public as a company secret. For example, Google strictly guards the secret of its algorithm.
It’s also strange, given the recent claims that Musk allegedly asked developers And Musk claims to have adjusted Twitter’s code to support his tweets has reportedly threatened to sue any Twitter employee who violates its NDA.
But as noted in the Register article, the Brookings Institute said open source algorithms “could be a boon to the tech sector’s competition, helping to define AI standards and, as Musk implied, algorithmic helps fight prejudice.”
And of course, Twitter is also facing a case similar to Google where it can be held responsible for its algorithmic results. Will it hurt their defenses if they don’t control the algorithm?
Source: register
How good is the mileage on your supercomputer?
Auto giant Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Google to introduce “supercomputer-like performance” into every car. Benz is racing to overtake its competitors, Tesla, the big 5 automaker and the software-driven facilities of the fast-growing and already large Chinese car manufacturing industry, which already dwarfs even Tesla, despite an early lead in the field. is making
Benz also partnering with chip maker Nvidia is investing heavily in reducing the cost of the new semi-conductors and chips needed in these cars. He also listed Luminar Technologies, in which Benz has made a small investment and has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with the company to provide the sensors needed for fleets of intelligent automobiles.
Google’s partnership isn’t unique. Several auto manufacturers, including GM and Nissan, have incorporated Google Maps, Google Assistant and other features. Benz will add the ability to watch YouTube in self-driving mode on the wide-screen cabin.
The move is not just a competitive race for features. Benz plans to offer some premium features at an additional cost. The time-honored tradition of upselling on options makes its way into the digital age.
Source: reuters
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