How AI Reshapes Business

Written By
James Maguire
James Maguire
Published: Oct 14, 2024
Updated: Oct 17, 2024
1 minute read

Transcription

hi I'm James Maguire editor of eweek and I'd like to talk about a major Trend in artificial intelligence and how this trend is shaping the future of AI the trend is this artificial intelligence is complicated far more complex than any Tech before it and is trending toward even greater complexity before AI the great revolution in Tech was cloud computing cloud has its challenges there's hybrid cloud M Cloud private Cloud companies struggle with it especially with cost but the complexity of cloud is like a shallow Pond by comparison to the deep ocean of artificial intelligence AI uses esoteric Concepts like neural networks deep learning neuromorphic Computing people write PhD dissertations on these ideas adding more complication AI is growing exponentially the large language model in chat gpt3 has 175 billion parameters GPT 4 has 1.8 trillion parameters 10 times larger GPT 5 scheduled for next year is rumored to have 50 trillion parameters so 25 times larger the growth rate is mindboggling so what's the result of ai's complexity what is it mean for business first AI vendors will need to partner with other providers to handle the technical demands and rate of change this means AI won't be controlled by a few monolithic providers instead it's it'll be driven by Partnerships and alliances a process called coopertition look at how chat GPT was launched it was a partnership between open Ai and Microsoft neither company could have done it by itself open AI required the massive compute power from Microsoft's Cloud Microsoft needed the culture of innovation from open AI in contrast when Microsoft launched its Cloud platform back in 2010 they didn't partner with anyone you can build a cloud platform by yourself but partnership is essential for AI all the top AI vendors data robot c3.ai H2O have all formed alliances with the hyperscalers these Partnerships are not optional for either side if they're going to remain competitive startups are doing the same thing hugging face partners with Nvidia and IBM Lang chain sign deals with elastic and deepsense now look at the other side of the picture look at how ai's complexity is playing out for customers as business customers look for AI vendors no one ever says this is the one vendor for all my AI needs there's too many competing possibilities instead businesses will mix and match their AI vendors they'll use one vendor for deep learning one for computer vision two more for AI chat Bots the list of vendors will get long in other words zoom out to the big picture what's happening is this the complexity of AI is driving the growth of a hyper interconnected web of relationships between all manner of events vendors and customers big small startups Legacy data apis going every which way this interconnected Community will enable AI to grow much faster and to a much higher level than if it were controlled by a few large providers ultimately the business winners in the years ahead are those companies who can figure out how to not just use AI but use the overall interconnected web of artificial intelligence to mix and match and form the most strategic alliances that's the key to a Competitive Edge as artificial intelligence reshaped business so there you have it those are my views on the future of AI it's going to be an interesting sector to watch thank you for listening

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eWeek Senior Editor James Maguire discusses the challenges in the artificial intelligence market and how the many partnerships required to support AI will create the need for a strategy focused on a multi-vendor approach to artificial intelligence.

James Maguire

James Maguire has been reporting on emerging technology for more than 15 years. He has won two ASBPE Awards of Excellence for in-depth feature articles about cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He has covered the gamut of enterprise and consumer technology, and regularly communicates with leading IT newsmakers, vendors and analysts.

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