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    Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Delivering on AI hype

    When it comes to the companies leading the way in AI development, Salesforce might not be the first name that springs to mind. The veteran CRM provider launched its flagship ‘Einstein’ AI in 2016, which relied on traditional machine learning methods to improve customer experience, but hasn’t sought to go head-to-head with major AI developers. With several years of generative…

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    NetApp could corner AI infrastructure at Insight 2024 – but customer hype will ride on its messaging

    NetApp has made a raft of AI-minded updates to its product line within the last year, leaning into hybrid and multi-cloud models as the future of enterprise IT infrastructure. Last year’s NetApp Insight set out to show how the firm has been an early trailblazer in the AI-ready infrastructure market, seeking to lead the way in helping businesses transform their…

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    Do Molekule Air Purifiers Live Up to the Hype?

    This acronym is short for photoelectrochemical oxidation. It isn’t new technology, per se, but rather a boosted version of photocatalytic oxidation (PCO), which has been used for decades to clean contaminated air and water.  A typical mesh filter—HEPA, for instance—captures only airborne particles. PECO and PCO, however, take it one step further and also target gases. They do this by…

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    The AI hype cycle: Separating fact from fiction

    Nearly two years after OpenAI launched generative AI into the public consciousness with the release of ChatGPT, it seems that AI hype may finally be dying down. Lucidworks’ second annual survey on generative AI, published in June, found that only one in four of more than 1,000 executives surveyed had successfully launched generative AI initiatives in the past year. What’s…

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    Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

    Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to other problems.  To be clear, there’s nothing bad about Agentic RAG (which stands for retrieval augmented…

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