

James Kobielus
Contributor
James Kobielus is principal analyst at Franconia Research.

Ensuring that citizen developers build AI responsibly
'Trust but verify' is good advice, but can we realistically do either with AI?

Battling bias and other toxicities in natural language generation
Despite numerous and concerted efforts to train NLG systems to generate content without offensive elements, success is still elusive.

Is geofencing a protective bubble or a heap of trouble?
A tool that monitors your location and immediately alerts authorities could either be a public-health carrot or an authoritarian stick.

Developing a Turing test for ethical AI
AI is ready for a new challenge: Can we train the machine behind the curtain to incorporate humanistic ethics into its processes?

Welcome to the client-serverless revolution
The growth of rich mobile and edge applications is requiring developers to build applications in new ways. Client-serverless is the way of the future.

Prepare for the work-from-anywhere revolution
The enterprise infrastructure needed to support the 'new normal' will depend on IoT, digital twins, and immersive reality.

7 predictions for cloud computing in 2021
Public cloud vendors will cement their dominance, but enterprises will look to hybrid clouds, PaaS, open-partner ecosystems, and augmented reality.

Reconciling political beliefs with career ambitions
Data professionals face personal dilemmas as AI contributes to ethical issues such as reduced privacy, algorithmic bias, and advanced military weapons.

Anti-adversarial machine learning defenses start to take root
Adversarial attacks are one of the greatest threats to the integrity of the emerging AI-centric economy.

Nvidia pushes into a wider application ecosystem
The BlueField DPU architecture and DOCA SDK provide a strategic platform for expanding the company's reach.

Looking into the post-2020 future of Big Tech
A strong showing during the pandemic leaves Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft poised for continued growth and increased regulatory scrutiny.