Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Why you should be all in on Gen-AI

It’s been a while since I’ve written about a sea change in technology.  I think one of the last topics was the rise of Big-Data where collection, analysis and compute resources were all coming together to fuel a revolution in predictive analytics which we all take for granted today. For instance, we get upset when Google maps doesn’t re-route us even when the backup just happened.  Or how we now run genomic sequences on our dogs.

We’ve been spoiled. 

I’m now seeing the same momentum, hype, and emerging reality around Gen-AI both for large language models and Image-AI.   We stand on the cusp of Gen-AI changing the way we learn, create, and make decisions.

The concepts of Gen-AI are not new mind you, Microsoft rolled out AutoCorrect in MS-Word in 1993.  Apple released Autocorrect with the debut of the iPhone and IOS 1.0.

What’s different is that today’s perfect storm of parallel processing GPU’s, (Related article Microsoft’s own ARM based GPU, look out Nvidia) combined with the neural networking algorithms that can correlate large associations of known language and image results and the open source large language models e.g. Open-AI with its 175B Parameters, all combine to fundamentally change the way we generate content and “original” thought. 

Open-AI’s ChatGPT,  one of the most public and widely used LLM’s stands to either be a breakthrough in the way humans create content or a shortcut to homogenize and normalize the world around marketing doublespeak, depending on your point-of-view.   

Personally, I like the way Google Pixel Image-AI helps everybody take a great picture.

Big-Data is all about using large data sources to form better predictive analytics and facilitate decision making to augment human action that drives better outcomes.

Gen-AI is a giant leap in the same direction, using those same Big-Data concepts but to change the way ideas are formed and content is created. 

The dilemma is that this is the essence of creativity and what makes us human.

 

 

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