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While others were shopping and decorating for the holidays, VentureBeat readers didn’t come out for Christmas cheer this week. Rather, they consumed coverage in two keys – as evidenced by our Top 5 Stories of the Week – AI and Security.
Sharon Goldman’s coverage of ChatGPT and generative AI took the top two positions in the list of most read stories. Goldman spoke with Rowan Curran of Forrester Research about how and why ChatGPT is having an iPhone moment. Like the iPhone did for the smartphone, ChatGPT is changing the public awareness around AI, particularly generative AI.
Goldman also takes a look back at her first calendar year at the VentureBeat and the barrage of news in areas ranging from generative AI to AI law. See how Goldman learned to stop worrying and love AI.
Even during the holiday season, IT leaders can’t sleep on security, as evidenced by the traffic Tim Keary and Louis Columbus generated with their predictions. Keary dug into cybersecurity forecasts from Google and Microsoft, and Columbus looked at security spending projections for 2023 and why zero trust and cloud security are at the top of the list.
Here are the top 5 stories for the week of December 19e.
Is it possible to compare this moment in the evolution of generative AI with any other technological development? According to Forrester Research AI/ML analyst Rowan Curran, yes.
“The only thing I’ve been able to compare it to is the release of the iPhone,” he told VentureBeat. Apple’s iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, but it swept the competition with its touchscreen, ease of use, and introduction of apps that put an entire computing experience in our pocket. The release of the original iPhone in January 2007, followed by the launch of the App Store in July 2008, ushered in a period of historic technological change, Curran explains. work with.
It was my first week at VentureBeat, mid-April. OpenAI had just released the new iteration of its text-to-image generator, DALL-E 2; our lead AI writer, Kyle Wiggers, had moved to TechCrunch before I could pick his brain, and I panicked. I was late in realizing how little I understood about the past decade of advancements in AI, from machine learning (ML) and computer vision to natural language processing (NLP). Every beat I’ve ever covered has had a learning curve, of course. But the AI beat felt like Mount Everest.
It’s no secret that cybercrime is a growth industry. Just last year, the FBI estimated that internet crime cost $6.9 billion. The worst news is that Google’s 2023 cybersecurity forecasts predict that this malicious economy will only continue to grow and diversify.
Sometimes the threat landscape looks bleak, but it also increases collaboration between vendors and organizations. At least that’s what Microsoft security leaders suggest in their 2023 cybersecurity forecasts. VentureBeat recently engaged with some of Microsoft’s top security leaders and researchers, who shared their 2023 predictions.
Current projections for cybersecurity spending in 2023 reinforce some of the key trends of 2022. Gartner predicts that zero trust network access (ZTNA) will be the fastest growing network security market segment globally. It is predicted to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.5% between 2021 and 2026, rising from $633 million to $2.1 billion globally.
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