Exploring the power and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence.
I saw a disturbing image today. Not something from a war zone or a horror film, but a post on Linkedin: Microsoft have, in their wisdom, introduced a large language model (LLM)-driven AI helper to Excel called Copilot. After entering “=copilot( )”, you can type in any text you like within the brackets, and Excel…
It is now almost three years since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI on an unsuspecting world. In this time large language models (LLMs) have had some significant impacts. Over half of all venture capital investment is now related to artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia, which makes the graphics processing units that power most AI searches,…
Large language models (LLMs), the engines at the heart of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are susceptible to various kinds of attack by hackers. For example, prompt injection is where an attacker fills a prompt with malicious input to either leak data or bypass controls. There are actually many other types…
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…
InterSystems 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…
Because 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…
There 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…
The 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…
Japan 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,…
India 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…