Today, more than ever, people are concerned about data privacy. Reflecting this, countries all over the world have introduced privacy laws – GDPR and CCPA being the biggest examples. These laws govern how businesses should collect, manage, and maintain data. This has prompted businesses to reevaluate their data collection operations. But to keep data private and secure businesses […]
Running Generative AI in Production – What Issues Will You Find?
As your data projects evolve, you will face new challenges. For new technology like generative AI, some challenges may just be variations on traditional IT projects like considering availability or distributed computing deployment problems. However, generative AI projects are also going through what Donald Rumsfeld once called the “unknown unknowns” phase, where we are discovering […]
Driving Data Governance: The Role of Data Strategy and Data Literacy Programs
In today’s data-driven world, organizations face increasing pressure to manage and govern their data assets effectively. Data governance plays a crucial role in ensuring that data is managed responsibly, securely, and in accordance with regulatory requirements. One key component and driver of successful data governance is the implementation of a robust data strategy coupled with […]
How AI Tools Can Help Organizations Maximize Their Enterprise Knowledge
AI and machine learning can be revelatory for organizations inundated with a sea of data and grappling to find ways to generate meaningful insights from it. AI tools help identify patterns and trends within large datasets that are often challenging for humans to discern. These tools can be trained to make predictions based on historical […]
Microservices and AWS RDS Instances: Revolutionizing Application Development
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for flexible, scalable, and independent application deployment is more critical than ever. Microservices architecture has emerged as a game-changer in how developers build and manage applications, allowing for the decomposition of traditional monolithic systems into independently deployable services. Coupled with the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Relational […]
How to Assess GenAI’s Impact on Your Business
Since the beginning of 2023, generative AI (GenAI) has quickly made a significant impact across an expanding range of industries and applications. In just over a year since its groundbreaking debut, there’s much to celebrate about GenAI – and even more to still uncover and understand. Today, 79% of employees report at least some exposure to AI, […]
In the Age of AI, How Can We Empower Everyone to Automate Work?
From boosting efficiency to making data-driven decisions faster, the benefits of using AI and automation in the workplace are numerous. But understandably, there’s also plenty of apprehension among some team members. According to new research, around 80% of those who work in a digital setting and use AI say that it’s already improving their productivity. And […]
Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens When Language Becomes Data?
At a recent presentation for a local post-secondary institution, I fielded a number of questions related to the use of language, primarily English language texts, as training data for generative AI. There were questions around cultural impacts and related ethical concerns. These queries were more nuanced than the usual ones I get around copyright or […]
Data Intelligence: The Key to Empowered People and Decisions
McKinsey analysts predict that enterprise employees will rely on data for almost every decision come 2025. If true, this development would mark a significant departure from the current business modus operandi. According to our research, only 25% of enterprise data professionals believe their organization’s decision-making process is data-backed or strategic. How are these two concepts – the perception of data […]
Generic LLMs vs. Domain-Specific LLMs: What’s the Difference?
Large language models (LLMs) are a special type of AI model that uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate text similar to human language. They are a form of generative AI trained on textual data to produce textual content. ChatGPT stands out as a well-known example of generative AI. Trained on massive datasets, LLMs […]