Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and from companies specializing in time-series forecasting such as Nixtla. The pre-trained models make time-series forecasting more…
Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, and take actions much as a human worker would, without human intervention. It’s more than just a smarter RPA…
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company, can be differentiated from the latest GPT-4o models basis their reasoning abilities. “We’ve developed…
In the early 20th century, the Wright brothers’ first flight barely left the ground, lasting just 12 seconds. But within a few decades, airplanes revolutionized global travel and connected the world in ways previously unimaginable. Today, a similar pattern is unfolding with artificial intelligence as it transitions from a niche innovation to a ubiquitous tool…
With any mention of generative AI and AI in general, we need to be clear that our goals should be to make people’s lives better, not just to cut costs. From my perspective, we need to focus on how this technology—and yes I view AI as an enabling technology, not a product—enables really smart people…
