The 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…
DetailsIs AI getting dumber? We are used to most software getting better over time, as bugs are fixed and new or improved features are introduced by the vendors. We hope that software, like a fine wine, will improve and develop pleasing complexity as it ages and develops. However, this hoped-for progress appears to be eluding…
DetailsLarge language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm since Open AI’s ChatGPT arrived on the scene on November 30th 2022. A torrent of investor money has been ploughed into AI start-ups, and it is hard to find a technology press release these days that does not reference AI. Even IBM’s latest mainframe, the…
DetailsGenerative AI has a wide range of possible applications across industries, but it is being more widely applied in some areas than others. A late 2024 Economist Impact Report global survey of 1,100 executives and technologists showed that IT, marketing and customer service are the three most popular areas for its deployment. The survey notes that…
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