Exploring the power and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence.
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…