Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman said that “no one understands quantum mechanics”, despite his having delivered a famous set of lectures on the subject. Despite this drawback, many companies, such as Google, IBM and others, are now building small, early working models of quantum computers, which promise to solve certain classes of mathematical problems drastically faster…
One mantra regarding large language models (LLMs) is that bigger is better. Parameters are the learned weights of a model, while tokens represent the pieces of text used to train it. The more training tokens an LLM sees, the more fluent the answers it produces. This assumption that bigger is better is what has driven…
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…
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…
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…
When most people think about artificial intelligence (AI) they may associate it with chatbots like ChatGPT and its rivals, or with elaborate computer models running in remote data centres. People tend not to think about AI being used in consumer devices that they encounter every day: thermostats, TV streaming services, fridges and telephones, yet AI…
From time immemorial, people have liked to gamble: the first six-sided dice was found in Mesopotamia, dating back to around 3000 BCE, and in ancient China, wooden tiles for a lottery-style game have been found dating back to 2300 BCE. The first casino emerged in Italy in 1638. More recently, the advent of the internet…
Self-driving cars have been a science fiction staple for years, featuring in movies like “Demolition Man” and “Total Recall”. Given that 1.2 million people a year die in accidents on the roads, it is hardly surprising that people have been trying to make this particular piece of fiction into reality for quite some time. The…
With all the current levels of excitement about generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of chatbots like ChatGPT and its rivals, it is easy to forget that the scope of AI goes well beyond this particular strand of AI. The media is awash with stories about the large language models (LLMs) that underpin generative…