AI

Artificial Intelligence Good Reads (Part 2)

This blog post continues a list of articles, sources and papers on artificial intelligence that I started in 2023 (see here). The post became a bit too long and unwieldy to maintain in a single page, so have broken it out for the start of 2024. Enjoy! Some AI Forecasts for 2024 (1) Alberto Romano, who maintains a thoughtful blog called Algorithmic Bridge, observes that the benchmark LLM at the end of 2023 was GPT-4, which was built in 2022, … Read more…

ChatGPT according to ChatGPT

It has been impossible to miss or ignore the hype about ChatGPT in any of my LinkedIn and Twitter feeds or business magazines. Clearly at the peak of a hype cycle, much has been written about the transformative effect generative AI language models will have on industries as diverse as search, law, book-writing and software development. It was therefore time to understand a bit better the inner workings of Chat GPT, OpenAI’s language model underpinning Microsoft’s new foray into Internet … Read more…

Artificial Intelligence – Some highlights from 2016

2016 has been a big year for Artificial Intelligence. Taking over from the Internet of Things as “Most Talked About Tech of The Year”, this represents a set of technologies that will clearly have significant  long-term implications for how we work, buy products and consume services. This explosion is made possible by the convergence of three trends: The massive growth in data availability in every field of human endeavour, a renewed interest in the algorithms underpinning artificial intelligence, and the plummeting cost … Read more…

Happenings in the World of Artificial Intelligence

While much of the tech media have been focusing on the goings on at the Mobile World Congress, some of the more interesting stories of the week are to be found elsewhere. While the differences between this year’s smartphones and last year’s models are becoming increasingly difficult to discern, the same is not true for the goings on in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Already a topic of a blog post of mine a short time ago, there have been some particularly … Read more…