TECHNOLOGY
Have you ever been at home and a question came into your head that you had to have answered , and so you turned to ChatGPT to explain it to you ? Or perhaps you used DALL-E to reimagine what your cat , sitting on your sofa , would look like if dressed in a wizard costume ? Then , unless you happen to inhabit a data centre , you have the cloud to thank for that .
Yes , this whole generative AI ( Gen AI ) obsessed world we currently occupy is all thanks to the cloud . Consider the case of large language models ( LLMs ), the powerhouse behind many Gen AI applications . These models require vast amounts of computational power and data storage .
The cloud lowered the barriers for adoption , melting away the upfront infrastructure costs , meaning startups like OpenAI could go on to usher in trailblazer systems like ChatGPT .
It also allows businesses to leverage the continuous innovation and development being done by cloud service providers ( CSPs ) and the opensource community , as well as the scalable infrastructure and on-demand resources to function as a launchpad for AI-driven transformation across industries .
Cloud platforms have , therefore , fundamentally altered the landscape of AI adoption , democratising access to developers and consumers alike .
168 September 2024