In a world overflowing with data, we are like detectives at the scene of a crime. The data points are the clues: customer clicks, sales figures, social media comments, sensor readings. By themselves, they don't tell us much.
The conversation around artificial intelligence often feels like a coin toss. On one side, we have a utopian vision of a world without disease, drudgery, or want. On the other, a dystopian future where humanity becomes obsolete or is ruled by its own creation.
In the vast and rapidly expanding universe of artificial intelligence, one star is currently shining brighter than all the others: generative AI. You’ve likely seen its work already, whether it’s the hyper-realistic image of a historical figure taking a selfie, a poem written in the style of Shakespeare about a modern-day topic, or the surprisingly coherent chatbot that helps you with customer service.
Building a traditional software application is like following a detailed blueprint. You write explicit rules and logic, and the program executes them perfectly. Building a machine learning (ML) application is more like raising a child.
In the age of big data, the conventional wisdom for training powerful artificial intelligence has been simple: gather as much data as you can in one central place. Companies collect vast amounts of user data on their servers and use it to train machine learning models. This approach has been incredibly successful, but it comes with a glaring problem.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has quietly become one of the most impactful technologies in the modern enterprise. These software "bots" are the digital workhorses of countless organizations, diligently performing the repetitive, rule-based tasks that humans find tedious.
The world of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing a Cambrian explosion of Large Language Models. Every few weeks, it seems, a new model is released from tech giants and startups alike, each accompanied by bold claims of being faster, smarter, and more capable than the last.
In the world of artificial intelligence, Transformer models are the undisputed heavyweight champions. Architectures like GPT and BERT have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling capabilities that seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. But this incredible power comes at a cost.