Most articles about artificial intelligence (AI) today discuss its capabilities and potential for innovative applications, from chatbots to predictive maintenance in engineering. What is less well explored is the cost of delivering these projects, and even less well addressed is the issue of supporting an AI model once it is already in production use. We…
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have excellent linguistic skills, but to use them for a specific business process, they need additional knowledge. For example, a customer service chatbot would not be much use unless it knew things like the products that the company sold and who had purchased them and when. To supplement…
What is best practice for organisations deploying AI in the enterprise? In this blog we examine the organisation, governance, architecture, processes, culture and technology needed for effective AI deployment. To begin with, an organisation needs to consider why it is considering deploying AI in the first place, just as it would with any new technology.…
You may be aware that a large language model (LLM) is trained on data, but did you know that there is a multi-billion-dollar industry of human data labelling that supports this? Behind every LLM lies an invisible workforce that toils away, labelling files, images and videos to help train the AIs. A large language model…
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…
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…
We are used to dealing with multiple sensory inputs: the information from our senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. We combine this information to make decisions easily and unconsciously. By contrast, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) have been mostly restricted to a single mode of communication – text.…
Those of us who live in the West tend to associate AI with the USA and Silicon Valley. The titans of the AI industry, from specialist software companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, to platform vendors like Microsoft and Google, to hardware companies like NVIDIA, are all headquartered in the USA. Most Western citizens have barely…