{n}.bora's Top Articles: 21st August

Highlights from this week’s articles involve an explanation of green coding, how websites can prevent their text from being used to train ChatGPT, and how AI is being used to monitor British wildlife levels.

As always, if you want advice and support with any of the topics raised, get in touch with us and we will be more than happy to help you. 

Business News:

• This article from Business Insider discusses how many organisations (such as leading firms like IBM and Google) are no longer requiring applicants to have a college (university) degree, rather focussing on skills and experience: 
  https://www.businessinsider.com/job-adverts-dont-require-degree-increased-report-2023-8
• This article from BBC News reports that retail sales dropped in July, partly due to both the cost of living crisis and the unusually wet weather: 
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66536000?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA 

Technology News:

• The US White House has announced the AI Cyber Challenge: a competition for hackers to attempt to find the best AI solution for preventing cyberattacks and protecting vulnerabilities. This Business Insider article provides more information: 
  https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-cyber-challenge-security-biden-administration-software-2023-8

Advice:  

• As well as advertising their own solution, this article from Perficient looks at five key considerations you need to take into account when deciding on your technology platform: 
  https://blogs.perficient.com/2023/08/16/top-5-key-considerations-for-selecting-your-perfect-technology-platform/
• This blog post from IBM explains green coding - or making code more efficient so it takes less resources to run - as well as looking at some of its principles and benefits: 
  https://www.ibm.com/blog/green-coding/

AI: 

• This article from Ars Technica looks at how organisations can prevent their websites having their text used as training data by ChatGPT: 
  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/?utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&fbclid=IwAR0sNCS4_c1tiJRgzqnkdlB0jm71AxZzUcNtB16n-BGtjIBm25691v0mR2s
• This article from Business Insider looks at how AI may change the US labour market and changes that can be made to handle these changes: 
  https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-radically-reshape-job-market-global-economy-employee-labor-innovation-2023-8?r=US&IR=T

Something Great:

• This article from the Guardian looks at how AI is helping to monitor British wildlife levels: 
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/13/only-ai-made-it-possible-scientists-hail-breakthrough-in-tracking-british-wildlife