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Why smart contracts can't be fully automated

Network World

Blockchain technology has been generating excitement in the public and private sectors for the past several years for many reasons — a prominent one being support for self-executing contracts commonly referred to as smart contracts. I think it's going to take forever."

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. The key challenge in our area is there are hundreds of tasks that might not be particularly well automated, says CTO Paul Gaskell. You hire us to evaluate some vendor you bring on board, says Sinclair Schuller, principal at EY.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

In these uses case, we have enough reference implementations to point to and say, Theres value to be had here.' Weve seen so many reference implementations, and weve done so many reference implementations, that were going to see massive adoption. Nobody wants to be hired or fired by a machine that has no accountability.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. An abundance of choice In the most general definition, open source here refers to the code thats available, and that the model can be modified and used for free in a variety of contexts. And there are plenty of such models to choose from.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO Business Intelligence

Now that we have covered AI agents, we can see that agentic AI refers to the concept of AI systems being capable of independent action and goal achievement, while AI agents are the individual components within this system that perform each specific task. And one million output records in each of the eight files.

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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations

CIO Business Intelligence

The end of the Great Resignation — the latest buzzword referring to a record number of people quitting their jobs since the pandemic — seems to be nowhere in sight. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. This gave us the time to groom the freshers.

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