Stuff I’m Thinking About

Topics where I have a perspective that I think is worth sharing.

Author

Colum McCoole

5. LLMs: Key Emerging Components of the AI Tech Stack

Convinced of the value LLMs can bring, the challenge becomes how can we securely and reliably get LLMs to perform complex tasks with real-world data.

ai-strategy-series

machine-learning

llmops

LLMs have become progressively more capable and exponentially cheaper over the past two years. While they need careful curation when deployed as…

4. DataOps: Emerging powerful modular tooling

Data Science depends on good data engineering. Data is the differentiating factor in evolving powerful models and a new paradigm of composable data systems are coming to fruition to meet the demands of machine learning-driven businesses

ai-strategy-series

machine-learning

dataops

Although many data scientists are eager to build and tune ML models, the reality is an estimated 70% to 80% of their time is spent toiling in the…

3. Platform Engineering for Evolving AI / ML Solutions

The process of extracting business value from AI is complex which is why you want systems in place, namely platforms, that allow for a combination of experimentation and productionisation and for this to work iteratively.

ai-strategy-series

machine-learning

platform

To do machine-learning well requires rigour. Models trained on data are only as good as the data they are trained on and that data is changing…

2. AI is Here, But its Business-Applicability may not be Obvious

AI will be transformational for your workforce, but they will need help to embrace it and practice applied AI — where to use it most effectively

ai-strategy-series

digital-transformation

applied-ai

Even if a business has a highly-capable IT function, it may only have a handful of specialists experimenting with AI technologies. How do you scale…

1. Framing an AI Strategy: Where Do You Start?

AI, inspite of the hype, needs your attention. But probably more importantly, your understanding … so that you can mold it for your specific needs

ai-strategy-series

data-science

machine-learning

Even if the term AI is flawed for its imprecision, the shift in thinking that it has unleashed, in terms of acknowledging digitalisation as table…