Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While generative AI has been around for several years , the arrival of ChatGPT (a conversational AI tool for all business occasions, built and trained from large language models) has been like a brilliant torch brought into a dark room, illuminating many previously unseen opportunities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2024

With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases. With this model, patients get results almost 80% faster than before. It’s fabulous.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

IDC, for instance, recommends the NIST AI Risk Management Framework as a suitable standard to help CIOs develop AI governance in house, as well as EU AI ACT provisions, says Trinidad, who cites best practices for some aspects of AI governance in “ IDC PeerScape: Practices for Securing AI Models and Applications.” The challenges?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Rather than pull away from big iron in the AI era, Big Blue is leaning into it, with plans in 2025 to release its next-generation Z mainframe , with a Telum II processor and Spyre AI Accelerator Card, positioned to run large language models (LLMs) and machine learning models for fraud detection and other use cases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Enterprises moving their artificial intelligence projects into full scale development are discovering escalating costs based on initial infrastructure choices. Many companies whose AI model training infrastructure is not proximal to their data lake incur steeper costs as the data sets grow larger and AI models become more complex.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

But there comes a point in a new technology when its potential benefits become clear even if the exact shape of its evolution is opaque. Earlier this year, consulting firm BCG published a survey of 1,400 C-suite executives and more than half expected AI and gen AI to deliver cost savings this year. What are business leaders telling us?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Generative AI models can perpetuate and amplify biases in training data when constructing output. Models can produce material that may infringe on copyrights. If not properly trained, these models can replicate code that may violate licensing terms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Many of those gen AI projects will fail because of poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, unclear business value , or escalating costs , Gartner predicts. Gen AI projects can cost millions of dollars to implement and incur huge ongoing costs, Gartner notes. For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

So, to maximize the ROI of gen AI efforts and investments, it’s important to move from ad-hoc experimentation to a more purposeful strategy and systematic approach to implementation. Here are five best practices to get the most business benefit from gen AI. This may impact some of your vendor selections as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Key strategies for exploration: Experimentation: Conduct small-scale experiments. Adobe’s transition from packaged software to the Creative Cloud service model is an example of a strategic move to exploit new market opportunities and scale for success with recurrent revenue and a broader user base. This phase maximizes long-term value.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

Without clarity in metrics, it’s impossible to do meaningful experimentation. AI PMs must ensure that experimentation occurs during three phases of the product lifecycle: Phase 1: Concept During the concept phase, it’s important to determine if it’s even possible for an AI product “ intervention ” to move an upstream business metric.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This offering is designed to provide an even more cost-effective solution for running Airflow environments in the cloud. micro characteristics, key benefits, ideal use cases, and how you can set up an Amazon MWAA environment based on this new environment class. micro reflect a balance between functionality and cost-effectiveness.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

During the summer of 2023, at the height of the first wave of interest in generative AI, LinkedIn began to wonder whether matching candidates with employers and making feeds more useful would be better served with the help of large language models (LLMs). Cost considerations One aspect that Bottaro dubbed “a hurdle” was the cost.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Gen AI takes us from single-use models of machine learning (ML) to AI tools that promise to be a platform with uses in many areas, but you still need to validate they’re appropriate for the problems you want solved, and that your users know how to use gen AI effectively. Pilots can offer value beyond just experimentation, of course.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Taylor adds that functional CIOs tend to concentrate on business-as-usual facets of IT such as system and services reliability; cost reduction and improving efficiency; risk management/ensuring the security and reliability of IT systems; and ongoing support of existing technology and tracking daily metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sandeep Davé knows the value of experimentation as well as anyone. Davé and his team’s achievements in AI are due in large part to creating opportunities for experimentation — and ensuring those experiments align with CBRE’s business strategy. Let’s start with the models. And those experiments have paid off.

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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

release, we’ve made it easy for you to rapidly prepare data, engineer new features and subsequently automate model deployment and monitoring into your Snowflake data landscape, all with limited data movement. We’ve tightened the loop between ML data prep , experimentation and testing all the way through to putting models into production.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

AI Benefits and Stakeholders. AI is a field where value, in the form of outcomes and their resulting benefits, is created by machines exhibiting the ability to learn and “understand,” and to use the knowledge learned to carry out tasks or achieve goals. AI-generated benefits can be realized by defining and achieving appropriate goals.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

Model Risk Management is about reducing bad consequences of decisions caused by trusting incorrect or misused model outputs. Systematically enabling model development and production deployment at scale entails use of an Enterprise MLOps platform, which addresses the full lifecycle including Model Risk Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

Creating new business models Gen AI is also unique in that it can generate useful business models. Plus, it’s used to speed up procurement analysis and insights into negotiation strategies, and reduce hiring costs with resume screening and automated candidate profile recommendations. AI is the future for us,” says Maffei.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For most organizations, a shift to the cloud brings scalability, access to innovative tools, and the possibility of cost savings. When you’re introducing many new applications, the ease of getting them up and running and lowered costs [on the cloud] is tremendously beneficial,” he says. An early partner of Amazon, the Roseburg, N.J.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Because it’s common for enterprise software development to leverage cloud environments, many IT groups assume that this infrastructure approach will succeed as well for AI model training. For many nascent AI projects in the prototyping and experimentation phase, the cloud works just fine.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

The first use of generative AI in companies tends to be for productivity improvements and cost cutting. But there are only so many costs that can be cut. CIOs are well positioned to cut costs since they’re usually well acquainted with a company’s digital processes, having helped set them up in the first place.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

But continuous deployment isn’t always appropriate for your business , stakeholders don’t always understand the costs of implementing robust continuous testing , and end-users don’t always tolerate frequent app deployments during peak usage. Platform engineering is one approach for creating standards and reinforcing key principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Experimentation with and deployment of generative AI needs to be thought of as a learning experience. Avanade is a proud sponsor at HIMSS24 and will be exploring approaches for choosing initial use cases and modeling the costs and benefits that GenAI can deliver. Click here to register.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the aim to accelerate innovation and transform its digital infrastructures and services, Ferrovial created its Digital Hub to serve as a meeting point where research and experimentation with digital strategies could, for example, provide new sources of income and improve company operations.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We can also increase effectiveness of preventative maintenance — or move to predictive maintenance — of equipment, reducing the cost of downtime without wasting any value from healthy equipment. With this, we can reduce customer churn and overall network operational costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Set parameters and emphasize collaboration To address one root cause of shadow IT, CIOs must also establish a governance and delivery model for evaluating, procuring, and implementing department technology solutions. People generally want to comply with policies, but being too stringent and creating too much friction often leads to shadow IT.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And just as financial services experiences its cycles, this time of year I find myself returning to the topic of cost reduction. These cutting-edge technologies provide lower-cost alternatives for discovering efficiencies within financial operations, all while enhancing the quality of services offered.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

Belcorp operates under a direct sales model in 14 countries. As Belcorp considered the difficulties it faced, the R&D division noted it could significantly expedite time-to-market and increase productivity in its product development process if it could shorten the timeframes of the experimental and testing phases in the R&D labs.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 28, 2022

Customers vary widely on the topic of public cloud – what data sources, what use cases are right for public cloud deployments – beyond sandbox, experimentation efforts. Private cloud continues to gain traction with firms realizing the benefits of greater flexibility and dynamic scalability. Cost Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

But early returns indicate the technology can provide benefits for the process of creating and enhancing applications, with caveats. Software and coding development remain a high-value area for experimentation, in addition to content development and knowledge management, in an effort to boost operational efficiencies,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

Many other platforms, such as Coveo’s Relative Generative Answering , Quickbase AI , and LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation , have embedded virtual assistant capabilities but don’t brand them copilots. Microsoft is heavily investing in AI capabilities and workflow integrations, so CIOs should expect and plan for improved capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The migration, still in its early stages, is being designed to benefit from the learned efficiencies, proven sustainability strategies, and advances in data and analytics on the AWS platform over the past decade. We’re not giving that data to anybody else, and we’ll be training the generative AI models with our own data sets,” she says.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These patterns could then be used as the basis for additional experimentation by scientists or engineers. The technique is helping product design firm Seattle reduce costs and improve the quality of its products. Though AI has many benefits in product R&D, it has some limitations in application. Generative Design.

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Cloudera

APRIL 26, 2023

With cloud operating models, decision making can be accelerated, leading to competitive advantages and increased revenue. It offers features such as data ingestion, storage, ETL, BI and analytics, observability, and AI model development and deployment. What business benefits do cloud native architectures deliver?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, CIOs must still reduce technical debt, modernize applications, and get cloud costs under control. Many technology investments are merely transitionary, taking something done today and upgrading it to a better capability without necessarily transforming the business or operating model.

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