ITPro Asks: Is it too early to use AI?

it pro asks is it too early to use AI AI has quickly become a buzzword in the tech industry along the remit of Science Fiction it's been realized in various forms throughout the industry across the years and there's an area of intense scientific and financial interest the short answer to the question is it too early to use AI is no AI systems are already in use across a range of Industries and perform tasks ranging from automation to biometric analysis however there's still a way to go before AI becomes anything resembling a silver bullet for productivity or behind the scenes work number one use cases are still being established for some firms AI is a transformational technology that will overhaul and improve their business model for others it's a distraction that doesn't easily fit into their existing stack where and when to implement AI also greatly depends on why it's being used an organization using an AI system to comb through proprietary data May seek to run a model on site or within their own stack on the other hand a company wanting to use AI to sort analytical data May Outsource this task to a third-party firm or hyperscaler number two chat Bots are the tip of the iceberg generative AI has been in development for over a decade but it's in the past six months that it's come to dominate headlines with the release of popular models such as chat GPT and Bing chat these programs can process and generate natural language text and other popular generative AI models such as Dali and stable diffusion are capable of generating AI images gpt4 is capable of receiving image inputs in addition to text and openai has announced a number of apps that have already made use of this for tasks such as helping visually impaired people to navigate functions such as this put it ahead of its predecessor GPT 3.5 but a definitive best use case for either model has yet to be found it was only recently that openai was able to secure a stable source of funds in the form of Microsoft and the company has since released an API through which businesses can pay to use popular models like GPT 3.5 and codex security firms like secureworks have found GPT 3.5 very helpful for compiling and translating Russian text from the dark web in order to maintain security vigilance some firms may choose to use these for customer facing chat Bots however the models are also powerful ways to Aggregate and analyze data and as such generative AI could be most useful as a back-end tool number three later doctors could lose out while in many ways it's still early days for commercial AI companies shouldn't arbitrarily delay implementation if they already have specific uses it might make sense to dive in now additionally for burgeoning Technologies such as generative AI firms could benefit from getting plans in place now for the areas of their businesses that can Implement Ai and map out how to go about doing this as with all Technologies whether or not it's too early to adopt AI ultimately depends on whether it fits your specific business needs [Music] foreign