David Tuppen , GFT ’ s Head of Data and AI , on Strategic Alliances and Accelerating AI Journeys
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Over the next 12 months , Tuppen anticipates a huge focus on AI and data .
“ GFT is investing heavily into its AI . DA marketplace , which includes industry specific use case libraries , AI and data journeys , blueprint solutions and accelerators , through to the modern data platform design patterns ; all accessible through the AI . DA marketplace ,” Tuppen shares . “ We are going to enable our customers to accelerate their AI journey even faster .”
As for insights into future trends in AI and data platforms , Tuppen sees that Gen AI is the hot topic currently in everyone ’ s search history .
“ People want to know – how can we integrate Gen AI with our existing landscape ? How can we use LLMs and AI ? The reality is that unless you have a trusted data platform in place , this is always going to be a difficult challenge .”
AI is fed by data , so users must have a trusted data source in place .
“ If you look at data , the industry is moving towards a democratised domainled architecture ,” Tuppen suggests , “ So , isolating each functional domain into an end-to-end data product is becoming the go-to standard .”
Meanwhile , GFT ’ s data science team is seeing increased uptake of smaller taskoriented language models .
“ Model ops for governance is a trend that we ’ re beginning to see ,” he says . “ We are actually seeing prompt engineering becoming less of a trend , due to optimisation frameworks already being built .”
At GFT , the focus continues to be on AI and Data , how to accelerate AI solutions and the benefits these bring , whilst always maintaining an eye on the ever-evolving data and AI requirements of the future . 134 December 2023