There is no doubt that AI is having a huge impact on the world. Statements by the likes of McKinsey and Goldman Sachs have predicted huge economic effects, though some more recent studies, such as this from the MIT Sloan School of Management, are more nuanced. ChatGPT claims 800 million users in mid-2025, and is…
DetailsEver since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst on the scene in November 2022, there has been a buzz of excitement about the possible use cases for generative AI. From medical imaging to writing marketing material, from generating illustrations to translating between languages, generative AI has created a popular wave of awareness that is rare for a new…
DetailsIn the emerging world of AI, how can we get the best out of our new silicon helpers? Large language models (LLMs) are the basis of all generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, LLAMA and Gemini. They can understand and generate human text based on huge amounts of training data, such as large…
DetailsThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and life sciences has a long history. In 1971, the University of Pittsburgh developed a tool called INTERNIST-1. This used a database of disease profiles and algorithms to help with clinical decision-making, including interrelated diagnosis. It did well, and was later commercialised as a product called QMR. Further AI…
DetailsThe latest trend in the AI world is “agentic AI”, where AI agents are linked together and given autonomy to make decisions and carry out actions. For example, you might use a current AI tool like ChatGPT to research a holiday for you, checking for flights, hotels, and restaurants in your chosen destination. An agentic…
DetailsOne aspect of generative AI that seems curious is the different rates of progress that the large language models (LLMs) have made in general-purpose text generation compared to their progress in image creation. It is now getting on for three years since the release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, yet the progress of…
DetailsThere has been a tidal wave of interest and investment in AI since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 by OpenAI. Over half of all global venture capital investment in 2024 was in AI-focused companies. Application areas have ranged from mundane to exotic, across a spectrum of industries. It has been used from customer service chatbots to…
DetailsThere has been a flood of interest and investment in AI since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, which gained a remarkable hundred million users in two months. By comparison, Instagram took two and a half years to reach that milestone. Enterprises have scrambled to assess its impact, and explore the wide range…
DetailsIn the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence (AI), we have seen the initial excitement around ChatGPT lead to a flood of investment, both in competitor start-up AI companies and in enterprise investment in AI. Company executives are seeking productivity advantages from AI in areas ranging from customer service to software coding through to image interpretation and…
DetailsSince the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a torrent of interest and investment in building and deploying AI technologies, especially the large language models (LLMs) that are the basis for generative AI like ChatGPT. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is the underlying language model, and ChatGPT is the chatbot application that…
DetailsMuch discussion about large language models (LLMs) is about their potential to automate tasks and jobs, and possibly replace entire industries such as graphic design and coding. While the hype in many cases exceeds the reality, there is another aspect of AI that needs to be considered: ethics. There are numerous examples of why the…
DetailsArtificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips in the last couple of years, ever since ChatGPT racked up 100 million users in record time (just two months) after its release in November 2022. Based on large language model (LLM) technology, the latest in AI could generate convincing content quickly (“generative AI”), from school essays to…
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