Technology Now

In this episode, we’re joined by HPE Chief Technologist Adrian Lovell. We're looking behind the scenes at how economists and banks are increasingly using AI to help mitigate and plan for financial turmoil. We’ll be looking at the tools banks are using to predict the future and act accordingly when it comes to setting interest rates, and asking what that can teach the rest of us all about forward planning, strategy, and using AI to augment human expertise.
 
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This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

This week we feature a very special guest, CEO and Team Principal Christian Horner from Oracle Red Bull Racing. We discuss the power of data, and their recent success with winning both the Formula 1 Drivers and Constructors Championships in 2022. We also look at what other organizations can learn from the way F1 does business with technology.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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About this week's guest, Christian Horner OBE, CEO and Team Principle of Oracle Red Bull Racing: https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/drivers/christian-horner-obe

Workplace stress is something most of us will experience at some point. But there are some fields where the stakes are that much higher. The decisions made in a pinch by airline pilots, doctors, and others can literally be life or death.

Switching from a well established and sometimes dull routine to immediate focus, clarity and understanding requires years of training and experience - and nowhere is that more true than in nuclear power. The vast majority of the time it's completely safe, but it's fair to say complacency and human decision making under stress has caused its fair share of disasters over the years.

The art of keeping human clarity on point and enabling us to make decisions under stress with the help of technology (rather than it making the situation worse) is called Human-Centered Design. It's a principle which points us in the right direction and assists us when we need to make judgement calls - and is surprisingly uncommon in many industries. Joining us today is Dr. Claire Blackett, Principal Nuclear Research Scientist from the Institute for Energy Technologies and an expert in Human-Centered Design. We'll be discussing what other organizations can learn about alleviating stress and enabling good decision making through positive design principles - and more.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert, Dr. Claire Blackett, Principal Nuclear Research Scientist from the Institute for Energy Technologies: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireblackett/?originalSubdomain=no

It's not entirely surprising that AI in healthcare is considered an enormous opportunity. Doctors and clinicians are overworked and stressed, and patients are expecting ever quicker and more effective diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, healthcare survives on efficiency and moving patients and staff where they are needed as quickly as possible. It's a perfect opportunity to take some of the strain off the human, and a wide variety of AI-based solutions are developing everything from analyzing scans to setting up appointments and assisting ward rounds. Using AI to 'oil the machine' while respecting and amplifying human expertise is an exciting prospect, and seemingly an ideal case study for the current capabilities of AI. So what can other organizations in different fields learn from the way healthcare is embracing AI and the learnings they've taken away so far? Joining us today to explain is General Electric Healthcare's Andy Cachaldora.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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Andy's book recommendation (other sources are available): Remote Presence – A Practical Guide To Communicating Effectively In A Remote Environment

It's fair to say crypto currency is the wild child of the tech field. From currencies climbing 40% in a day to collapsing overnight, Crypto is rarely out of the news. Why does it matter to businesses? Well, with higher stakes comes the likelihood of greater regulation. That in turn could lead to enough stability to make crypto a viable payment platform on a large scale, with enormous implications for business and the global economy, as well as forcing a rethink of ideas such as inflation and quantitative easing. Crypto is also a testing ground for new and innovative thinking around sustainable and secure ICT technology. It's not always successful, but it's something we should all be paying attention to. And then, of course, there's the fact that turmoil in the crypto world can cause real issues for millions of investors, with a knock-on effect for our organizations. These issues and more are on the table this week."

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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Links to our stories this week:
Chat GPT threatening users: https://time.com/6256529/bing-openai-chatgpt-danger-alignment/
Liquid Neural networks in autonomous vehicles (AVs): https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-discover-a-more-flexible-approach-to-machine-learning-20230207/

AI is a great tool for lifting the burden of repeatable, predictable tasks off humans. Until it isn’t. The fact is, a lot of AI is biased and even unconsciously discriminatory. It’s trained on poor, skewed datasets as the result of traditional biases in the tech industry. That means in the real world,  unrepresented groups such as women are losing out on opportunities as a result of decisions being made by AI in finance, HR, healthcare, and more. So what can we do to solve this issue? We’re joined by Professor Anjana Susarla from Michigan State University to find out.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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Anjana's book recommendation: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Our energy use is a hot topic (pun intended). In many parts of the world, fluctuating oil prices and energy supplies due to international turmoil and economic strife are posing an existential threat to organisations and our data. So what can we do to help keep the lights on? This week we’re joined by HPE Chief Technologist Dr John Frey to talk about ‘easy’ ways to save energy in our datacenters and IT ecosystems.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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Weather is never out of the news. From an extreme and later than normal hurricane season in the US to record-breaking cold snaps in China and Korea all within the space of a few weeks, it’s fairly obvious that we should care about forecasting. Especially as we’re likely to get more extreme weather in the future. This week, we take a look at how experts and tech companies are developing up-to-the-minute solutions to predicting our weather woes.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

Today's stories: 

• What is nowcasting? An outline from the UK Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/data/nowcasting-datasheet_2019.pdf
• Microsoft DeepMC: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/micro-climate-predictions-enabling-hyper-local-decisions-for-agriculture-and-renewables/
• HPE accelerates its offer to the weather forecasting arena: https://community.hpe.com/t5/servers-systems-the-right/advance-weather-prediction-with-a-breakthrough-supercomputer-at/ba-p/7178940#.Y_eQFXbP0Q8
• Record for communicating via a brain implant set at 62 words per minute: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/24/1067226/an-als-patient-set-a-record-for-communicating-via-a-brain-implant-62-words-per-minute/
• 3D scanning using a home router: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00250.pdf

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This is Technology Now, a new weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and talk to leading experts about why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

Featured in this trailer: HPE Chief Technologist Matt Armstrong-Barnes, and Anjana Susarla, Professor of Responsible AI at the University of Michigan.

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Bots have been in the news a lot over the last few months. From plaguing social media and threatening to scupper Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout, to being blamed for Taylor Swift’s tour ticketing woes on the Live Nation site, they tend to make the news for all the wrong reasons. But what exactly are bots? Can they be used for good? And can they help organisations? We’re joined today by Matt Armstong-Barnes, HPE Chief Technologist, to find out.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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