The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 opened the eyes of most of the world to the power of large language models (LLMs). This is the core technology that underpins ChatGPT and its rivals Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc, as well as their image-generating cousins Midjourney, Leonardo, Imagen, Firefly and Sora. Excitement about LLMs reached a…
Artificial intelligence requires plenty of computing power. Large language models (LLMs), the technology underlying generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, require vast amounts of data to train on, and in turn, this training requires massive computing power. Executing a prompt in an AI chatbot requires processing power, and it is estimated that executing an AI…
The oil and gas industries are some of the largest in the world, with a market size of over $7 trillion. Just over half of that is exploration and production, the rest being refining and distribution. It employs over 12 million people, with a further 60 million employed indirectly by its suppliers. While an oil…
Large language models (LLMs) are the underlying technology of popular generative AI applications like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok. They are well known for their ability to generate fluent text in response to natural language prompts from users, such as: “write me an essay on the industrial revolution”, or “draft me a letter for…
“Large language models” (LLMs) underly all the current generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok. The same technology is also the basis for the AI image and video tools like Midjourney, DALL-E! Leonardo, Firefly and Stable Diffusion. Before we get into the main thrust of this blog, which…
The hottest topic at the moment in artificial intelligence (AI) is “agentic AI”. This is the idea of AI systems that have autonomous decision-making ability and the ability to take action. In principle, these may be actions without human supervision. This is quite different from the current use of chatbots such as Claude, Perplexity, Grok…
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…
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…