{n}.bora’s Top Articles: 24th January
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Business:
- This article from the World Economic Forum explores why developing an ‘innovation ecosystem’ is crucial for digital and sustainability transformations, and how this can be done: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/how-companies-can-create-ecosystems-to-help-with-digital-and-sustainable-transformations/
Technology:
- This article from the National CIO Review discusses a forecast for IT spending in 2024, and the impact change fatigue may (or may not have) on this: https://nationalcioreview.com/articles-insights/technology/gartner-revises-2024-it-spending-growth-forecast/?utm_source=The+National+CIO+Review&utm_campaign=ea741481ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_18_04_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_08bc2391ac-ea741481ab-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Advice:
- Giving a definition, examples and some use cases, this blog post from IBM provides a clear introduction to chatbots: https://www.ibm.com/blog/chatbot-examples-a-beginners-guide/
AI:
- This opinion piece from the Guardian explores why helping people write code may be one of the few places where generative AI lives up to its hype: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/truth-about-ai-might-produce-better-software
Something Great:
- Our second World Economic Forum article looks at the ways AI and automation can help in national or international crises: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/during-times-of-crisis-ai-and-automation-can-be-a-force-for-good/
First published by {n}.bora January 24, 2024
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