Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks was filmed giving a keynote in Boston earlier this week. In his blog, he said AI “has reached a tipping point and cannot be ignored.”Photo credit: Red Hat
This is an issue that anyone involved in the regulatory environment, or involved in the development of ethical artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, should consider, if not already. “Should AI be regulated?”
That’s a compelling question, especially since Open AI CEO Sam Altman took over last week, according to a CNN report headlined . ChatGPT went to Washington, “Members of Congress called for regulation of artificial intelligence at a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, explaining that the current boom in artificial intelligence is a potential ‘press moment’ but one that requires playing it safe. bottom.”
“Governmental regulatory interventions will be critical to de-risking increasingly powerful models,” Altman said in his opening remarks.
Questioner IT World Canada Speaking at the Red Hat Summit in Boston today on Altman’s proposal, the company’s CEO Matt Hicks agreed that some form of regulation might be needed at some point. , fell short of endorsing Altman.
Hicks suggested that it’s a bit premature given the fact that there are still issues to be resolved on the AI regulatory issue.
“I think there’s a lot of fragmentation going on at the moment,” he says. “Even with privacy controls, I think there are different ways of doing things at the state level and the country level.”
He said it was clear that AI should be used responsibly, but “at this point we don’t know” how it would best be regulated.
He is convinced that AI cannot be stopped from getting bigger. In a blog post published yesterday, Hicks wrote: “AI has reached a tipping point and we cannot ignore it. Instead, we need to decide how, where and why we harness it and use it to propel our organisations.” We explored this on the main stage of the Red Hat Summit this week.
“From where I sit, this is one of the most exciting moments of being in the tech industry. Advancements that sounded like science fiction just a few decades ago are now commonplace. AI has moved from the obscurity of academia to the pervasiveness of ChatGPT, and from a tool only available to a few to a movement now driven and used by the masses. “Combining the power and collaboration of open source with the potential of AI will help us solve the world’s problems more effectively and faster than we ever dreamed possible.”
Hicks continued, “The only thing we’re limited to is our creativity. The creative element of AI is that it doesn’t have to be one thing for everyone. There may not be a one-size-fits-all solution, but we cannot ignore AI as a driver of change. We have the opportunity to embrace this moment and participate in shaping the future.”
AI is clearly important to the company, but so is edge computing. The company announced today that it has strengthened its partnership with ABB, a Swiss multinational company specializing in electrification and automation, which was officially launched last year.
Francis Chow, vice president and general manager of automotive operating systems and edge at Red Hat, and Bernhard Eschermann, CTO of ABB’s process automation division, said in a joint statement that the latter’s ABBability Edgenius said it was available. Deployed Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Device Edge to “extend operational consistency for industrial use cases across edge and hybrid cloud environments.”
In their blog, they wrote, “A paradigm shift is occurring in the industrial sector as manufacturers turn to open source technology to support agile operational technology (OT) platform architectures and gain real-time data insights at the edge. There is.”
“As organizations move additional computing power to the factory floor, they are also beginning to realize that the methodologies that IT organizations have mastered over the past decade are equally relevant in the context of OT.”
