Exploring the power and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence.
There 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…
In 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…
Since 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…
Much 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…
Artificial 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…
Is 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…
Large 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…
Generative 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…
Ever since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has been fascinated by artificial intelligence (AI), and the new generative AI in particular, driven by large language models (LLMs). A third of all venture capital investment in 2024 was AI-related, and a September 2024 study by Amazon AWS estimated that 57% of all…