Adaptive AI

What is AI ?

Artificial intelligence?(AI) is?intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by?machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by?non-human animals?and?humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between (natural) languages, as well as other mappings of inputs. The?Oxford English Dictionary?of?Oxford University Press?defines artificial intelligence as:

AI applications?include advanced?web search?engines (e.g.,?Google),?recommendation systems?(used by?YouTube,?Amazon?and?Netflix),?understanding human speech?(such as?Siri?and?Alexa),?self-driving cars?(e.g.,?Waymo),?automated decision-making?and competing at the highest level in?strategic game?systems (such as?chess?and?Go).As machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered to require "intelligence" are often removed from the definition of AI, a phenomenon known as the?AI effect.For instance,?optical character recognition?is frequently excluded from things considered to be AI,having become a routine technology.

Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956, and in the years since has experienced several waves of optimism,followed by disappointment and the loss of funding (known as an "AI winter"),followed by new approaches, success and renewed funding.AI research has tried and discarded many different approaches since its founding, including simulating the brain,?modeling human problem solving,?formal logic,?large databases of knowledge?and imitating animal behavior. In the first decades of the 21st century, highly mathematical-statistical?machine learning?has dominated the field, and this technique has proved highly successful, helping to solve many challenging problems throughout industry and academia.

The various sub-fields of AI research are centered around particular goals and the use of particular tools. The traditional goals of AI research include?reasoning,?knowledge representation,?planning,?learning,?natural language processing,?perception, and the ability to move and manipulate objects.General intelligence?(the ability to solve an arbitrary problem) is among the field's long-term goals.To solve these problems, AI researchers have adapted and integrated a wide range of problem-solving techniques – including search and mathematical optimization, formal logic,?artificial neural networks, and methods based on?statistics,?probability?and?economics. AI also draws upon?computer science,?psychology,?linguistics,?philosophy, and many other fields.

The field was founded on the assumption that human intelligence "can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".This raised philosophical arguments about the mind and the ethical consequences of creating artificial beings endowed with human-like intelligence; these issues have previously been explored by?myth,?fiction?and?philosophy?since antiquity.Computer scientists?and?philosophers?have since suggested that AI may become an?existential risk?to humanity if its rational capacities are not steered towards beneficial goals.

What is Adaptive AI ?

Adaptive AI systems support a decision-making framework centered around making faster decisions while remaining flexible to adjust as issues arise. These systems aim to continuously learn based on new data at runtime to adapt more quickly to changes in real-world circumstances. The AI engineering framework can help orchestrate and optimize applications to adapt to, resist or absorb disruptions, facilitating the management of adaptive systems.Adaptive AI, compared to traditional AI processes, can self-adapt in production or modify after deployment, utilising real-time feedback from previous human and machine experiences.As mentioned earlier when describing AI in cybersecurity, the new implementations can adapt to specific environments, and for example, when fighting cyber attacks,?AI are faster than humans?and defend against potential threats more efficiently. Especially for tech, engineering and manufacturing industries, more things and machines become interconnected, so this becomes more and more crucial.By 2026, Gartner projects that businesses who have implemented AI engineering methods to create and oversee adaptive AI systems will outperform their rivals in terms of the quantity and speed of operationalizing AI models.Adaptive AI absorbs learnings even as it’s being built. Think about that for a second.

Adaptive artificial intelligence (AI), unlike traditional AI systems, can revise its own code to adjust for real-world changes that weren't known or foreseen when the code was first written. Organizations that build adaptability and resilience into design in this way can react more quickly and effectively to disruptions.

By 2026, enterprises that have adopted AI engineering practices to build and manage adaptive AI systems will outperform their peers in the number and time it takes to operationalize?artificial intelligence?models by at least 25%.

Virtually every business relies on data to survive. Sales data gives you insights into your business’s performance. Customer data tells you more about your target audience and their behaviors. Marketing data helps you understand how to improve brand awareness and expand your reach. Competitor data, transaction data, financial data, employee data – the list goes on. Without it all, you wouldn’t be able to make informed decisions that could take your company forward.?

But it’s one thing collecting data, and quite another analyzing it and?transforming?it into valuable, actionable information. And that’s precisely where?machine learning?comes in.?

An?AI/ML infrastructure?brings an abundance of benefits to any industry, but only if you use the correct machine learning model for your needs. Most commonly, businesses rely on traditional ML to handle data collection, analysis, and predictions, but?adaptive ML?has started taking the spotlight.?

Let’s dive deeper into the?world of machine learning?and see what makes adaptive ML so much more powerful than traditional ML.?

It is only recently that machine learning as a concept started drawing attention, the field has quite a lengthy history. ML’s beginnings?date back to the early 1950s, although we had to wait about 40 years more for the significant breakthroughs in the field that made ML so accessible today. From the ‘90s onwards, machine learning started to thrive and reshape industries from the core, especially so with the introduction of the traditional or batch machine learning model.?

Traditional ML involves only two primary pipelines – one for training (responsible for data collection) and the other for making predictions (responsible for data analysis). Before an ML model is sent out into the world, it goes through a round of training during which its parameters for data collection and analysis are set. To train the model, developers use batch learning techniques where the model receives the entire data set at once to generate the best predictions.?

Traditional machine learning is static; it depends on parameters that don’t change, making it great for horizontal scalability but causing problems in dynamic industries where data changes quickly.?

Since there are only two pipelines for data collection and analysis, and since traditional ML models rely on past data to generate new predictions, you can never have true, real-time insights critical in industries such as e-commerce, for example, where trends are constantly changing.?

To overcome the inherent flaws of traditional ML models, developers typically commit to one of two approaches:?

• Manually training for new data?
• Scheduling automatic training for new data?

Manual training for new data is a time-consuming process that doesn’t deliver much better results, so most developers opt for the second option.?

However, it’s still not ideal. Even if automatic training and deployment are scheduled daily, your ML model would still be using stale data to make predictions, perhaps just an hour old, but still old.?

To perform a?successful digital transformation?and get as close to real-time predictions and real-time learning as possible, you need a model that relies on adaptive ML.?

Adaptive machine learning is a more advanced solution that takes real-time data collection and analysis seriously. As its name would suggest, it easily adapts to new information and provides insights almost instantaneously.?

Instead of having a two-channel or two-pipeline approach like traditional ML, adaptive ML relies on a single channel.?As opposed to batch learning, adaptive learning collects and analyzes data in sequential order, not all at once. This enables adaptive ML models to monitor and learn from the changes in both input and output values; it allows the model to adapt its data collection, grouping, and analysis methods based on new information.?

So, as long as there’s a stream of information coming in, adaptive machine learning models will continue updating and changing to provide you with the best predictors for future data. You’ll receive high performance and the utmost precision. Perhaps more importantly, you’ll get a system that runs in real-time that doesn’t run the risk of getting outdated or obsolete, making the?cost of running AI infrastructure?well worth it.?

Why adaptive AI matters

Adaptive AI brings together a set of methods (i.e., agent-based design) and AI techniques (i.e., reinforcement learning) to enable systems to adjust their learning practices and behaviors so they can adapt to changing real-world circumstances while in production.?

By learning behavioral patterns from past human and machine experience, and within runtime environments, adaptive AI delivers faster, better outcomes. The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, for example, have built a learning system that adapts its lessons to the learner using their individual strengths. It knows what to teach, when to test and how to measure progress. The program acts like an individual tutor, tailoring the learning to the student.

And for any enterprise, decision making is a critical but increasingly complex activity that will require decision intelligence systems to exercise more autonomy. But decision-making processes will need to be reengineered to use adaptive AI. This can have major implications for existing process architectures — and requires business stakeholders to ensure the ethical use of AI for compliance and regulations.

Bring together representatives from business, IT and support functions to implement adaptive AI systems. Identify the use cases, provide insight into technologies and identify sourcing and resourcing impact. At a minimum, business stakeholders must collaborate with data and analytics, AI and software engineering practices to build adaptive AI systems. AI engineering will play a critical role in building and operationalizing the adaptive AI architectures.

Ultimately, though, adaptive systems will enable new ways of doing business, opening the door to new business models or products, services and channels that will break decision silos.

AI engineering?provides the foundational components of implementation, operationalization and change management at the process level that enable adaptive AI systems. But adaptive AI requires significantly strengthening the change management aspect of AI engineering efforts. It will defeat the purpose if only a few functions around this principle are altered.

Reengineering systems for adaptive AI will significantly impact employees, businesses and technology partners and won’t happen overnight.?

First, create the foundations of adaptive AI systems by complementing current AI implementations with continuous intelligence design patterns and event-stream capabilities — eventually moving toward agent-based methods to give more autonomy to systems components.

Also, make it easier for business users to adopt AI and contribute toward managing adaptive AI systems by incorporating explicit and measurable business indicators through operationalized systems, as well as incorporating trust within the decisioning framework.

·????Adaptive AI creates a superior and faster user experience by adapting to changing real-world circumstances.

·????Broadening decision making capabilities and flexibility happen while implementing decision intelligence capabilities.

·????IT leaders need to reengineer various processes to build adaptive AI systems that can learn and change their behaviors based on circumstances.

Adaptive AI is Difficult

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expensive.

Companies driving costs down while investing in digital transformations to become more agile, lean, and profitable, I get the physics! Just don’t look too deep into it yet. Artificial intelligence strategies are not built on being a costing savings model.

Adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning business models combine the promise to process, automation, and respond with sheer velocity; many organizations consider this capability a cost-effective, optimized, and rationalized decision. Okay, I feel you. Really.

Adaptive AI business strategies work because organizations will make more sense of their data sitting in the cloud, legacy SANs, LUNS, and S3 buckets inside Databricks and Snowflake. If you count data sitting in DR, that’s a lot of data. Rationalizing data through AI and ML is old news. Many organizations have yet to realize a solid ROI for this critical investment. With adaptive AI business platforms requiring more pre-rationalized data sets to make logical and optimized decisions, let’s consider the accessible opportunities.

Cybersecurity Attacks

Many organizations, including financial institutions, are getting volume attacks even with extensive adaptive controls with traditional information security solutions, experienced SecOps resources, and MSSPs. Etc. The need for true auto-remediation powered by adaptive AI is a needed use case to deal with the growing cyber threats.

A cornerstone of current and future web 3.0 and blockchain strategies is based on innovative contract capability. Smart contracts and blockchain capability will benefit leasing cars, medical record and billing automation, and passport processing. Adaptive AI and machine learning are critical in this work stream.

Most agree that adaptive AI will only be effective if sufficient data is processed. Organizations finish dealing with the cost of data storage, replication, and capacity before AI comes into play.

In the Splunk example, this company will charge for the amount of the data they will process and store, as they should! Yet, many organizations selectively only send specific log files to Splunk to lower costs. Now, in the new world of blockchain and adaptive AI, organizations need to increase their budgets to support the excessive data storage to make AI work as planned.

Some organizations consider adaptive AI as a replacement for human capital. AI will need to program its self-healing, optimizing, and self-innovation capabilities.

Organizations will need qualified data scientists and analytics resources until that day happens. Adding to the math, storage, cybersecurity, and development resources, how will adaptive AI be a cost-marginal asset to organizations?

As I mentioned in the beginning, wait to look at the math. Similar to fighting cybersecurity attacks with continuous monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response, blockchain, and adaptive AI will require similar disciplines. Organizations should consider their costing model a constant operation and development expense until the promise of adaptive AI comes true.

AI Poses a Problem for regulatory Pathways

The medical device industry is already feeling the effects of the Artificial Intelligence?(AI)?revolution. However, most advanced AI algorithms are not well-suited for the current regulatory landscape. Fortunately, the FDA has released an?action?plan on how they plan to handle the challenges brought on by AI/ML-based software for medical devices.?

What Is Considered as AI/ML?

Artificial Intelligence?(AI) can use Machine Learning (ML) as a tool, but the two are different concepts. Artificial intelligence is defined as the science and engineering that develops intelligent machines. AI technology typically leverages different techniques and models based on a statistical analysis of data and top-notch systems that rely on machine learning and if-then statements.??

Machine?learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that trains algorithms to learn and act from data. Here, the more quality data available, the better the algorithm will function.?

AI/ML-based software intended to diagnose, treat, or cure a health?condition?is?are?referred?considered?to?be?as medical devices, according to the FDA's?Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).?Real-world examples for AI/ML-based devices that meet the FDA's definition include an imaging system that uses algorithms to provide diagnostic data for skin cancer or a smart electrocardiogram device that gives estimates on the possibility of a heart attack.?

What Is AI/ML-Based?SaMD???

The term "Software as a Medical Device" (SaMD) refers to software used for one or several medical purposes. The software typically performs these purposes without being part of?the?hardware?of the?medical device. An AI/ML-based?SaMD?leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to diagnose, prevent, monitor, alleviate,?or treat a condition, an injury, or a physiological process. Notably,?the?FDA has approved some AI/ML-based?SaMD, but the AI algorithms have almost always been "locked."??

What is "Locked" and "Adaptive" AI/ML???

Machine learning for medical devices can be divided into a spectrum between “Locked” and “Adaptive.” Locked algorithms always provide the same results each time the same input is provided. As such, a locked algorithm does not pose a problem for the FDA because it applies a fixed function to a given set of inputs. Ideally, the locked algorithms can use manual processes for validation and updates. Unlike the adaptive algorithms,?the?FDA?can?review?"locked?AI" in a similar way that it?reviews?other?SaMD?products.?

On the other hand, an adaptive algorithm can adapt and optimize device performance in real-time to continuously improve patient care. It is a continuous learning algorithm that changes its behavior using a defined learning process such that for a given set of inputs, you may get different outputs?each time the algorithm is used. The adaptive algorithms will change their behavior based on the available data?even?after being distributed in the market.??

In some cases, these changes might require a new?510(k)/supplemental?PMA.???

Why Is Adaptive AI a Problem ???

SaMD?Adaptive AI can learn and update itself in ways that usually require a new 510(k). For example, the adaptive algorithm adjustments intended to optimize performance within a given environment based on the local population?follow?two steps:?learning and updating.??

The algorithm learns how to change its behavior with each addition of new input to an already established training base. Once the modified algorithm is deployed, an update then occurs. Consequently, the same set of inputs before the update and after the update may give a different output of the algorithm. These changes impact the device performance, input type, or intended usage, which?would?warrant a?new?510(k)?submission.?

What Are the Categories of Adaptive AI

A single modification to adaptive?algorithms?may drastically affect performance, inputs, or intended usage.?

Any adaptive AI modification pertaining to performance, even if it has no change to the intended use or input type, may require a new 510(k) or supplemental PMA. This type of modification may come in the form of improvements to clinical and analytical performance, which may lead to several changes.??

Modifications Related to Inputs?

This refers to changes to the inputs used by the algorithm and their clinical association to the?SaMD?output. Notably, these modifications may include the use of new types of input signals that don't change the?intended?use claim. Examples of these changes include the addition of different input data types or expanding the?SaMD's?compatibility with other sources of the same input data type.?

Modifications Related to the Intended Use??

These types of changes typically alter the significance of the information provided by the?SaMD. For example, it may result in a change from "aid in diagnosis" to a "definitive diagnosis." Additionally, the intended use modifications may also result in changes in the healthcare situation or condition as provided by the manufacturers.??

SaMD?Pre-Specifications (SPS)?

The SPS includes a?SaMD?manufacturer's anticipated modifications that affect performance, inputs, or intended use of an AI/ML-based?SaMD. These changes typically affect the initial specifications and labeling of the original device.?

Algorithm Change Protocol (ACP)

ACP refers to the associated methodology used to implement the changes in a controlled manner to manage risks to patients efficiently.?SaMD?manufacturers are expected to detail specific methods in place to achieve and control risks of anticipated modifications delineated in the SPS.?

FDA has already approved locked AI/ML devices that made use of the predetermined change control plan. For design-specific changes to?SaMD?already reviewed and cleared under a 510(k) notification, the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) provides clear software modifications guidelines that help determine?when a premarket submission is required.?

The Negatives and Positives of Adaptive Machine Learning?

Adaptive machine learning brings several unique benefits that could be useful across industries. Its main pros include:?

• Robustness?
• Efficiency?
• Agility?
• Accuracy?
• Sustainability?

The adaptive ML model’s robustness and efficiency lie in its ability to handle large quantities of data with ease. Its agility lies in its capacity to adapt to changes and adjust its operational conditions to meet your current needs. Thanks to its single-channel approach and real-time data collection and analysis capabilities, adaptive ML models can provide accurate insights and precise predictions in a matter of seconds.?

All these benefits combined make for a sustainable system that makes ML models easily scalable, capable of handling massive datasets in real-time.?

Artificial intelligence?can be various things: doing intelligent things with computers, or doing smart things with computers the manner in which individuals do them. The distinction is significant. Computers work uniquely in contrast to our brains: our minds are serial consciously, however, parallel underneath. Computers are serial underneath, however, we can have different processors, and there are now parallel hardware architectures too. All things considered, it’s difficult to do parallel in parallel, though we’re normally that way. Copying human methodologies has been a long-standing exertion in AI, as a mechanism to affirm our comprehension. If we can get similar outcomes from a computer simulation, we can propose that we have a strong model of what’s going on. Obviously, the connections work, inspired by frustration with some artifacts of cognition, shows that some of the previous emblematic models were approximations rather than exact portrayals. Presently, issues in information security, communication bandwidth, and processing latency are driving AI from the cloud to the edge. Nonetheless, a similar AI innovation that acquired significant headway in cloud computing, fundamentally through the availability of GPUs for training and running large neural networks, are not appropriate for edge AI. Edge AI gadgets work with tight resource budgets, for example, memory, power and computing horsepower. Training complex deep neural networks (DNN) is already a complex process, and preparing for edge targets can be limitlessly more troublesome. Conventional methodologies in training AI for the edge are restricted in light of the fact that they depend on the idea that the processing for the inference is statically characterized during training. These static methodologies incorporate post-training quantization and pruning, and they don’t consider how deep networks may need to work diversely at runtime. Compared with the static methodologies above, Adaptive AI is an essential move in the manner AI is trained and how current and future computing needs are resolved. The reason behind why it could outpace traditional?machine learning?(ML) models soon is for its capability to encourage organizations in accomplishing better results while contributing less time, effort and assets.?

Robust, Efficient and Agile

The three primary precepts of Adaptive AI are robustness, efficiency, and agility. Robustness is the capacity to accomplish high algorithmic precision. Efficiency is the capability to accomplish low resource usage (for example computer, memory, and power). Agility manages the capacity to adjust operational conditions dependent on current needs. Together, these three precepts of Adaptive AI plan the key measurements toward super proficient AI inference for edge devices.?

Data-informed Predictions

The Adaptive Learning technique utilizes a single pipeline. With this strategy, you can utilize a constantly advanced learning approach that keeps the framework updated and encourages it to accomplish high-performance levels. The Adaptive Learning process screens and learns the new changes made to the info and yield values and their related qualities. Furthermore, it gains from the occasions that may change the market behavior in real-time and, henceforth, keeps up its precision consistently. Adaptive AI acknowledges the input got from the operating environment and follows up on it to make data-informed predictions.?

Sustainable System

Adaptive Learning tackles the issues while building ML models at scale. Since the model is prepared through a streaming methodology, its proficiency for spaces with profoundly meager datasets where noise handling is significant. The pipeline is intended to deal with billions of features across tremendous datasets while each record can have many features, leading to sparse data records. This system takes a shot at a single pipeline instead of the conventional ML pipelines that are isolated into two sections. This gives quick solutions for verification of ideas and simple deployment in production. The underlying exhibition of the Adaptive Learning framework is comparable to batch-model systems yet proceeds to outperform them by acting and gaining from the feedback obtained by the system, making it unquestionably more robust and sustainable in the long term.?

Future Prospects

Adaptive AI will be widely used to deal with changing AI computing needs. Operational effectiveness is resolved during runtime with regards to what algorithmic performance is required and what computing resources are available. Edge AI frameworks that can powerfully alter their computing needs are the best way to bring down compute and memory resources needs. The qualities of Adaptive AI make it profoundly solid in the dynamic software environments of CSPs where inputs/outputs change with each framework overhaul. It can play a key part in their digital transformation across network operations, marketing, customer care, IoT, security, and help evolve customer experience.

However, there’s a catch. Adaptive machine learning models are more prone to?catastrophic interference?– artificial neural networks tend to forget old information as they acquire new information. Fortunately, this can be easily avoided with?incremental learning.?

Applications of Adaptive Machine Learning?

Considering its agility, precision, and real-time capabilities, adaptive ML can be valuable across industries and niches:?

• Financial sector – for detecting fraudulent transactions, predicting trends, automating trading systems;?
• Manufacturing sector – for predicting system malfunctions and solving supply chain issues;?
• Healthcare – for providing quick, accurate, and affordable diagnoses and alerting of problems before they arise;?
• Marketing – for perfecting marketing campaigns based on real-time insights;?
• E-commerce – for predicting trends and devising effective strategies;?

As more and more industries start relying on adaptive ML technology, it will become evident just how powerful these models can be.?

Conclusion : Adaptive artificial intelligence can modify its own code to adapt to changes in the world that weren't anticipated or known when the code was first written. Organizations with adaptation and resilience in their AI designs can respond to crises more rapidly and successfully. The recent health and climate crises have taught many organizations the importance of flexibility and adaptability. Adaptive AI systems strive to continuously retrain models or use other techniques to adapt and learn within runtime and development settings to improve their adaptability and resilience.businesses that have implemented AI engineering processes to create and manage adaptive AI systems will outperform their rivals by at least 25% in terms of the quantity and speed of operationalizing AI models by2026.In All ,Adaptive AI is an intereinteresting piece of Technology which is good for advancement if used in a right perspective and form

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