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Remember how much the world changed after the introduction of the iPhone? AI is having the same kind of impact in the workplace and on HR practices.

In the case of AI in HR, it must be leveraged responsibly to ensure fairness and mitigate bias. We took a deep dive with Britta Mühlenberg, the chief operations officer of content production software company Acrolinx, to examine the current state of AI in HR, from revolutionizing recruitment to personalizing the employee experience. Mühlenberg was previously Acrolinx’s chief people officer (CPO).

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. This week Acrolinx’s CRO, Shane Cumming, shares how to calculate the ROI for your AI content governance platform.

The EU AI Act will come into force in 2024, meaning that global enterprise businesses will need to take steps toward compliance. The European Union’s AI Act regulates the technology by placing AI models into buckets of risk ranging from minimal risk to unacceptable risk. Check out what Acrolinx CEO, Volker Smid, had to say about the new regulations.

Vendors like GitHub and Amazon have introduced settings and policies aimed at allaying the fears of companies wary of the IP challenges around their GenAI coding tools. But it’s unclear that they’ve made much headway. In a 2023 survey of Fortune 500 businesses by Acrolinx, nearly a third said that intellectual property was their biggest concern about the use of generative AI. “We used permissive licence code to train [our models] because our customers demanded it,” Klimov said.

Looking for some robot assistance? The top 25 AI marketing tools can make social media management (and marketing in general!) so much easier. Forgive us for using a technical term, but it’s absolutely bananas how far AI has come in the past year. And while some people are worried that the robots are here to take our jobs, we’re convinced they’re here to help us do our jobs better—especially when it comes to AI marketing tools.

Surveys show a majority of Americans are increasingly cautious about the growing role of AI in their lives. State legislatures are taking the lead in regulating artificial intelligence after a quarter-century in which Congress has failed to come up with substantive laws governing tech. See what Volker Smid, CEO of Acrolinx, had to say.

The best Enterprise Software podcasts from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, and freshness, by FeedSpot. The WordBirds Podcast, sponsored by Acrolinx, is in spot number two! Check out the full list in this article.

Google’s making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt, more widely available — at least to Google Cloud customers using Vertex AI who’ve been approved for access. But the company isn’t disclosing which data it used to train the new model — nor introducing a way for creators who might’ve inadvertently contributed to the dataset to opt out or apply for compensation. Called Imagen 2, Google’s enhanced model — which was quietly launched in preview at the tech giant’s I/O conference in May — was developed using technology from Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI lab. Compared to the first-gen Imagen, it’s “significantly” improved in terms of image quality, Google claims (the company bizarrely refused to share image samples prior to this morning), and introduces new capabilities, including the ability to render text and logos.