TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for November 2023

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

Heard on the Street – 12/4/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

PwC’s 2023 Emerging Technology Survey

Our friends over at PwC released its 2023 Emerging Technology Survey, unveiling the seismic impact emerging technologies have on top-performing companies and highlighting the critical role of AI in driving business model reinvention and long-term innovation.  

Genpact Unveils Operating Playbook for Scaling Responsible Generative AI Projects

Genpact announced an industry-first playbook: FMOps – The Generative AI Imperative for Production. The playbook, which focuses on Foundation Model Operations (FMOps), provides practical guidelines for building solid and efficient foundations for generative AI solutions. 

What is a RAG? 

In this contributed article, Magnus Revang, Chief Product Officer of Openstream.ai, points out that In the Large Language Model space, one acronym is frequently put forward as the solution to all the weaknesses. Hallucinations? RAG. Privacy? RAG. Confidentiality? RAG. Unfortunately, when asked to define RAG, the definitions are all over the place. 

Happy Birthday ChatGPT!

Today, November 30, 2023, mark’s the first anniversary of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In the last year, the AI chatbot has secured support from major Silicon Valley companies and seen integration across various fields including academia, the arts, marketing, medicine, gaming, and government. These are exciting times, so we decided to put together this round-up of commentaries from around the big data ecosystem. Enjoy! 

Sophos Anticipates AI-Based Attack Techniques and Prepares Detections

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, released two reports about the use of AI in cybercrime. The first report—“The Dark Side of AI: Large-Scale Scam Campaigns Made Possible by Generative AI”—demonstrates how, in the future, scammers could leverage technology like ChatGPT to conduct fraud on a massive scale with minimal technical skills.

Altair® Launches Altair RapidMiner® 2023 Platform To Deliver Next-Gen Gen AI Capabilities

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) announced that Altair® RapidMiner®, its data analytics and AI platform, is becoming more integrated, more powerful, and easier to use thanks to a new series of groundbreaking updates.

Comet Launches Course on Building with LLMs

Comet, a leading MLOps platform, launched of a new initiative to help data scientists and software engineers keep pace with the changing world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and all of the possibilities they can enable. In a new course, taught by co-founder of DAIR.AI, Elvis Saravia, Comet breaks down the process of building LLMs for the real world with practical examples and use cases, such as how to build a reliable customer support chatbot, how to construct a clickbait detector from scratch, and how to deploy an LLM-powered evaluation system.

Heard on the Street – 11/27/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.