How Much Should an Architect Know about AI?
I've been a bit overwhelmed as I come up to speed about AI
For the past 20-plus years, I’ve been keeping up to speed on Networking, Virtualization, Data Center, and now Cloud Computing. Add to all that the various forms of AI. I’ve been drinking from the firehose that is generative AI, natural learning, machine learning, and foundational AI. It’s all simply too much.
However, I believe AI is Cloud 2.0. Not that you’ll be running workloads on AI, but that the average business user will adopt AI. I’m concerned about an end user pointing a GPT solution at internal data and breaking regulations around data protection and civil rights. Handing this powerful tool over to general users will have unforeseeable repercussions.
I must get in front of as much of this as possible as an architect. The question is, how much do I need to learn? It’s a net new discipline, and we are only at the foothill of the hype cycle. I sat with independent analysts Maribel Lopez, Tim Crawford, and Larry Carvalho.
Be sure to check out the primer I pulled together, many of the OpenAI founding, team, in their own voices, with references and links to seminal research papers.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/greg-andrej-ilya-sam-mira-jeff-frick/