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Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Monday 22 July 2024 11:41:28
Autonomous AI Workers that Talk to Each Other Will Arrive in 2025, Capgemini Predicts
Artificial intelligence-powered agents will be able to work together and solve tasks in a so-called “multi-agent AI” system by 2025, according to technology services giant Capgemini.
Such a system would entail a collection of agents that work together to solve tasks in a distributed and collaborative way, according to Capgemini.
Pascal Brier, the company’s chief innovation officer, told CNBC in an interview that the firm is already “seeing companies that are discussing those agent technologies.”
He added that applications using multiple autonomous agents “is really what we should expect next year.”
Capgemini defines AI agents as “technology designed to function independently, plan, reflect, pursue higher-level goals, and execute complex workflows with minimal or limited direct human oversight” — essentially, AI agents that work behind the scenes to complete tasks on your behalf.
Artificial intelligence-powered agents will be able to work together and solve tasks in a so-called “multi-agent AI” system by 2025, according to technology services giant Capgemini.
Such a system would entail a collection of agents that work together to solve tasks in a distributed and collaborative way, according to Capgemini.
Pascal Brier, the company’s chief innovation officer, told CNBC in an interview that the firm is already “seeing companies that are discussing those agent technologies.”
He added that applications using multiple autonomous agents “is really what we should expect next year.”
Capgemini defines AI agents as “technology designed to function independently, plan, reflect, pursue higher-level goals, and execute complex workflows with minimal or limited direct human oversight” — essentially, AI agents that work behind the scenes to complete tasks on your behalf.
Now, “AI and generative AI are getting closer together, and it’s much more about building those engines of knowledge, using generative AI to interact with those engines, and using this new notion of agents as being either a substitute or co-pilot to find and do things for us,” he said.
According to Capgemini, 71% of organizations are anticipating AI agents will facilitate automation, while 64% of firms expect they’ll relieve human workers of repetitive tasks and allow them to focus on value-added functions, like customer experience.
Adoption gap in genAI
Capgemini said in its report that it’s seen a fourfold increase in the number of organizations now integrating generative AI into some or most of their locations or functions. In 2023, the number of firms adopting generative AI was 6%, according to Capgemini, but this year, that number has risen to 24%.
However, while large companies are seeing heightened levels of adoption in their businesses, smaller firms are yet to experience the same phenomenon.
According to the report, 10% of firms with an annual revenue of $1 billion to $5 billion are implementing generative AI. For companies with an annual revenue of $20 billion or more, that number swells to 49%.
“The scale at which bigger companies are doing generative AI experiments is bigger, so they get more chances to measure results, and were able to get faster, and obviously they did invest more than then than the smaller ones,” Brier told CNBC.
Results also varies from industry to industry. In aerospace and defense, 88% of organizations have invested in generative AI, for retail, that number drops to 66%.
