Building Generative AI – what do you need to know?

The growth of ChatGPT since November 2022 has been nothing short of astronomical. The service gets around 1.5billion visits a month according to SimilarWeb, and led to a huge swell of interest and investment in Generative AI. According to CB Insights, around $14.6billion of venture capital went to companies involved in this area during the […]

Does your company need it’s own LLM? The reality is, it probably doesn’t!

Six months have passed since we were catapulted into the post-ChatGPT era, and every day AI news is making more headlines. Releases of new LLMS by specialised research houses like Anthropic with Claude, and DeepMind with Chinchilla, are reaching our ears. Meta has released LLaMA, while Google has been reminding us that LaMDA has existed […]

AI still needs humans to stay intelligent—here’s why

“Yesterday.” That’s often the answer I give to business leaders who ask me about the best time to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). After all, IBM calls it ‘potentially the most powerful technology businesses have ever had access to’. Research shows it promises to transform profitability over the next 15 years. And with two-thirds of companies […]

Let’s make AI boring

The conversation about applying artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses has shifted dramatically Not that long ago organisations were being urged to ‘just get started’ – to set up a dream team of data scientists and protect them from the rest of the company, letting them get on with developing proofs of concept and allowing them […]

Why deep learning technology is dividing opinion in the tech world

The history of deep learning goes back as far as 1943, when Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch created a computer model based on the neural networks of the human brain Today, if we asked a language model like GPT-3 to write an article about the history of deep learning, it might begin with that sentence. […]

Powering Artificial Intelligence: Why High-Performance Computing is Crucial

During the pandemic, artificial intelligence (AI), powered by high-performance computing (HPC), was behind many of the crucial breakthroughs in the battle against COVID-19, from rapidly sequencing the genomes of new virus strains to designing drugs and vaccines. This combination of HPC and AI is also increasingly driving cutting-edge research, from uncovering treatments for cancer to […]

The future of work is already here, but how fair is it?

In 2003, the cyber fiction writer William Gibson coined the intriguing phrase; “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed”. When it comes to the workplace, this statement most certainly holds true. There is so much to be excited about as technology continues to evolve and be integrated into our workplaces: whether […]

The evolution of no-code AI

What – and where – is no-code AI? A code-free system that empowers companies using artificial intelligence (AI) to perform various activities such as, but not limited to, data classification and analysis, “No-code” solutions enable users to create application functionality without writing programming code When placed into the context of AI, machine learning (ML), and […]

Will AI make us more secure?

ChatGPT, the dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language, has become another icon in the disruptor ecosystem. Gaining over 1 million registered users in just 5 days, it has become the fastest growing tech platform ever. ChatGPT generates impressively detailed human-like written text and thoughtful prose, following a text input prompt. In addition, […]

Should data analysts worry about ChatGPT?

Is conversational AI a blessing or curse for data? If you follow the tech industry, you’ve heard about ChatGPT. Whether you think it’s the future of chatbot technology or you’re erring on the side of caution, if you know about it, you’re bound to have an opinion. As Google confirms it’s launching a rivalling service, […]