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AI has become a transformative force for businesses across industries. Since the release of ChatGPT in December 2022, we’ve seen the rapid rise of generative AI, marking a key moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence. Many organisations view AI as a way to gain a competitive edge, with growing interest across areas such as Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Robotics, and now gen AI.
Business leaders increasingly recognise AI’s potential to reshape their industries. As confidence in its benefits grows, generative AI and AI/ML services are becoming central to technology strategies.
Artificial Intelligence services includes traditional techniques like Predictive AI and Causal AI. Predictive AI (or Analytical AI) uses algorithms to forecast future events based on historical data. Causal AI determines the causes and effects of events and is used in IT operations and AIOps.
Generative AI (Gen AI) services, leveraging foundational models such as large language models (LLMs), creates new content—text, code, images, audio, and more—by learning patterns from large datasets. This technology builds on existing data to generate novel outputs.
Gen AI might not be suitable for all use cases. It must be used complementary to Traditional or Discriminative AI. Our Gen AI use cases – 6C Framework – gives a broader direction for identifying use cases for Gen AI. According to our 6C Framework, its use cases fall under six broader categories.
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Hyper-modal AI combines Generative AI, Predictive AI, and Causal AI to address complex use cases. For example, in drug discovery, Predictive AI identifies potential drugs, while Causal AI analyses gene interactions to find the most effective treatment.
IT observability and operations tool maker Dynatrace recently announced their Hyper-model AI tool Davis. Historically, Davis has utilised Causal AI and Predictive AI for many AIOps use cases. Now they have augmented Davis with Generative AI capabilities, including the capability of interacting with the tool with natural language, Copilot AI Agent, and generating code for automation workflows.
As AI systems and agents are being used in critical and impactful use cases from identifying the right candidate for a job to underwriting insurance to different healthcare and life sciences, use cases ensuring that these systems are unbiased, fair, safe, secure and reliable should be the topmost priority. These systems should not violate intellectual property (IP) and should abide by AI and data-related laws, regulations and compliances (e.g. the newly formed EU AI Act, Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA by Govt of Canada), GDPR, etc). Overall, AI systems should protect and reinforce positive human values.
Our responsible Artificial Intelligence services framework covers all aspects of AI ethics and governance. We utilise this framework in all our Gen AI and AI/ML projects.
We can help you end-to-end, starting from AI readiness assessment to identifying and prioritising the optimum use cases for you to Gen AI POC to design and build. Our AI ethics and governance services include all aspects of Responsible AI, FinOps for AI workloads and Sustainable AI.
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Drive your AI initiatives through Businessand Customer focus:
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Take a business centered approach. Identity AI usecases and carefully judge all the aspects includingvalue delivered, cost benefit analysis, ROI, TCO etc.
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Consider between Generative AI vsTraditional AI vs both:
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Do not try to paint all your use cases with Gen AI. GenAI might not be suitable for all use case. Take a hybridapproach of Gen AI + Traditional Discriminative AI
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Be curious; Explore the potentials ofnewer areas of AI and Gen AI:
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AI is still an emerging field. New models, approaches,tools and services are getting introduced every week.Explore the possibilities of new emerging areas of AI
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Bake in AI Ethics, Governance, Security,Privacy, Trust, and Risk:
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Bake in Responsible AI, Explainable AI and AIInterpretability from inception phase. Utilize best of theclass AI Ethics and Governance tools.
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Take a People Centered andMultidisciplinary approach for AI:
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Successful AI adoption require a multidisciplinary team including team members with psychology, philosophy,and social sciences background; and not just datascientists, AI specialists, and prompt engineers.
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Build foundational capability in Cloud,Data and Automation:
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Scaling your AI initiative would require you to build astring foundation in Cloud, Data and Automation. YourAI models would perform as best as your data & cloudfoundations are.
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Focus on scaling your AI initiatives fromPOC to projects across your org:
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While many enterprise are doing POCs on AI/ Gen AI lessof it is getting productionized. Build a strong strategyand execution approach for scaling your AI initiatives
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Think about Operational aspects fromstrategy and inception phase:
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AI operations needs a different mindset. Build an AIoperating model and consider all operational aspectsincluding monitoring, scaling, cost, security, process etc.
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We assess your readiness for Gen AI services by evaluating your people, processes, technology (AI, data, cloud, security), and operational capabilities. This helps to develop a strong business case for AI adoption.
After identifying the business case and use cases, we assist in conducting a technical proof of concept, which can range from a few weeks to several months.
We support the architecture, design, build, and testing phases across Gen AI, AI/ML, cloud, and data platforms.
Enhance your existing applications with new intelligent features powered by Gen AI and Discriminative AI.
Our intelligent automation and RPA services help you automate processes and applications.
Beyond technology, it is crucial to consider aspects such as privacy, bias, trust, risk, security, data protection, and sovereignty to maximise AI’s benefits.
XAI helps demystify the decision-making processes of AI service models, providing transparency to users and stakeholders.
As the costs associated with Gen AI services rise, we help analyse, optimise, and govern your AI/ML, cloud, and data costs through a full-stack approach.
We ensure that your AI initiatives are sustainable, benefiting your company, clients, employees, partners, the broader ecosystem, and the planet.
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Having a well thought through architecture stack is important for adopting and scaling AI and Gen AI programs across your organization. The AI architecture stack comprises of specialised infrastructure for Gen AI, cloud and data services, model as a service layer (provides a catalogue of foundational models from different providers, and model customisation), middleware (model orchestration tools and APIs), and AI powered Intelligent App. Read our whitepaper to know more about the AI architecture stack.