Our associates over at Teradata have ready a particular set of compelling expertise predictions for the yr forward. From the corporate’s standpoint 2024 must be fairly a yr! Straight from the manager suite, you’ll find out about what’s predicted to occur with AI, GenAI, LLMs and rather more. Take pleasure in these particular views from one in all our trade’s finest recognized movers and shakers.
Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer, Teradata
2023 was outlined by the fast rise of ChatGPT. Subsequent yr, the concentrate on AI will shift from eagerness and pleasure round giant language mannequin AI to what’s subsequent. First, I foresee an enormous productiveness leap ahead by means of GenAI, particularly in expertise and software program. It’s getting less expensive to get into GenAI, and there are tons extra options obtainable that may assist enhance GenAI options. Will probably be the yr when conversations gravitate to GenAI, ethics, and what it means to be human. In some instances, we’ll begin to see the workforce shift and be reshaped, with the expertise serving to to usher in a 4-day work week for some full-time staff. Discuss round buyer experiences will likely be dominated by AI’s influence, and we’ll see much less concentrate on enterprise intelligence. We are able to additionally count on to see a resurgence round IoT discussions because of AI kicking this into the next gear with near-sentient robots doing issues higher and quicker. In companies, cybersecurity would be the “finest worst” job subsequent yr.
I additionally count on to see extra and higher makes use of of LLMs past our work lives. As an example, private small language fashions will emerge that can assist us with chores equivalent to automating kinds for faculties and medical doctors and different time-consuming actions that AI can do quicker and extra simply. Sadly, GenAI will nonetheless be lagging within the “inform me an incredible joke” and different departments that require an actual, functioning mind, so human creativity will stay at a premium. And one different thought … luddites will develop into their very own market phase.
Jacqueline Woods, Chief Advertising Officer, Teradata
2024 will likely be often called the yr of the nice knowledge reckoning. For many years, corporations have been drowning in knowledge – that unto itself shouldn’t be a brand new drawback. The important should be prepared for at present’s new info frontier is upon us. It’s often called AI/Gen AI and it guarantees to ship incomparable worth to these in a position to leverage its energy – to enhance productiveness, ship quicker innovation, and ship larger enterprise worth throughout an organization. The extreme lack of harmonized and trusted knowledge will proceed to drive unfavorable bias and poor buyer experiences, leading to underperforming enterprise outcomes. To take full benefit of what AI has to supply, corporations should endure a radical knowledge transformation to make sure their knowledge is clear and pristine. Solely then will corporations have the ability to get to trusted knowledge that results in usable info and worthwhile insights to speed up higher enterprise efficiency.
In 2024, the duality of AI will come to life. Everyone seems to be tremendously excited! Boards ask CEOs, “What’s your AI technique?” In flip, these officers are asking their groups to AI roadmap and get began. Like a shiny new toy, and just like the folklore of “there’s gold in them hills,” it has the lure and false impression of having the ability to resolve practically any drawback that you can imagine. For now, Generative AI and enormous language fashions have given us a glimpse of how companies, industries, and society could be remodeled for the higher. However with all the thrill comes FOMO – worry of lacking out – and the businesses that rush to implement AI initiatives with out endurance and cautious planning can danger damaging their company repute. Somewhat than leaping on the bandwagon, it is advisable be the motive force’s seat of your AI journey. Corporations that achieve this rigorously and authentically would be the ones that come out forward.
Anuradha Mohan, Senior Director, Product, Teradata
2023 has been an thrilling yr in expertise. ChatGPT actually made AI a family identify. Whereas giant language fashions (LLMs) have been round for years, they’ve been esoteric. ChatGPT democratized LLMs in a single day. So, there’s been a quickly rising and broadening understanding of LLMs and pleasure round its potentialities. However there’s additionally a dose of actuality within the combine, with rising discussions round hallucinations and misinformation. Within the yr forward, I anticipate the data-centric AI strategy will expose that AI has reached a degree the place knowledge is extra vital than the fashions it feeds. We’ll see extra enterprises pivoting investments to concentrate on guaranteeing high quality knowledge to fine-tune their LLM fashions, reasonably than persevering with to push for marginal enhancements in fashions. 2024 will even be a yr of reckoning wherein corporations that lead with expertise reasonably than taking a data-first strategy might discover themselves with overengineered and high-cost options that won’t hit the mark.
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