We are all being deluged by news stories about artificial intelligence (AI) and the large language models (LLMs) at the heart of the latest AI trend, generative AI. But how do they actually work? Some level of understanding of this would seem quite useful for a technology that now creates over half of the content…
DetailsInterSystems held an analyst briefing day in their Windsor offices on 23rd September 2025. The company was founded by Terry Ragon in 1978, and he is still their CEO. The company is privately held, with a single investor and no debt. The company is headquartered in Boston, and in 2024 the company achieved $1.1 billion…
DetailsBecause of the buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, it is easy to forget that large language models (LLMs) which power generative AI, are just a subset of AI. There are actually many forms of AI around, from old-fashioned expert systems to machine learning, to reinforcement learning systems to newer…
DetailsThere have been several studies that show that the current failure rate of AI projects is shocking. The highest profile one is a 2025 MIT study, involving hundreds of interviews, finding that the failure rate of AI projects was 95%. This stark number is not actually so different from other estimates, which have ranged from…
DetailsThe worlds of data management and artificial intelligence (AI) are gradually converging. There are many segments of the huge $92 billion enterprise data management market, including data governance, master data management, data quality, data integration, databases and data analytics. Every one of these has been touched by AI to some extent. Enterprise data management continues…
DetailsJapan has a strong history in artificial intelligence (AI), dating back to the 1960s. As far back as 1967, Shun’ichi Amari proposed a way to enable neural networks to self-adjust the way that they categorise patterns through repeated training examples. This was one element that led to backpropogation, a key development in AI. Geoffrey Hinton,…
DetailsIndia is the most populous country in the world, with well over 1.4 billion people, slightly more than China. With its economy at over $4 trillion and growing at 6.5%, it is the fourth largest economy in the world (after the US, China and Germany, having overtaken Japan) and is on course to be the…
DetailsIn 2016, AI pioneer and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton argued that there was no point in training radiologists, since it was “obvious” that AI would outperform human radiologists within five years i.e. by 2021. As pointed out in an article in Radiology Business, the number of radiologists employed at the Mayo Clinic actually increased by…
DetailsArtificial intelligence (AI) chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) have been with us on a large scale for almost three years now, ever since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Their impact on the world is undeniable, with around two-thirds of companies using them to a greater or lesser degree by mid-2025. There…
DetailsHuman beings can be devious. We are capable of trickery and deceit, of withholding information, cheating or lying. The term “Machiavellian” is used for deceitful, manipulative behaviour in pursuit of personal gain or status over ethical principles. Given the increasing role in our lives of artificial intelligence (AI) and the large language models (LLMs) used…
DetailsA subtle way that artificial intelligence (AI) is inserting itself into everyday life is in the effect it is having on web browsing, social media and streaming content like movies. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989, and websites for the general public emerged around 1993. The issue was how…
DetailsFrom the invention of gunpowder to the machine gun and tank, the military has always been an early adopter of the latest technological innovations. Computing has had a major impact on warfare ever since Alan Turing’s Bombe machine was used to crack the German Enigma cyphers in World War II. The driverless taxis from Waymo…
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