Not too long ago, the world of AI users and AI developers and engineers were very different.?
?? In the “old days” (just two years ago or so), it used to take highly-skilled data scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers, and other well-paid and hard-to-find individuals to build the models that non-developers could use or embed in their applications.
But Generative AI has shifted the landscape of who is able to create AI outputs. On a recent flight back from SXSW this year, a random seatmate was eager to show me the AI-generated creations she made on Midjourney as well as the prompts on GPT. Now everyone is an AI developer.
But is Everyone Truly an AI Developer?
Even though generative AI is literally at everyone’s fingertips, whether accessing tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Midjourney or others directly, or embedded into the tools we use every day, that doesn’t mean that the average person is able to build AI models, especially ones that can stand up to real-world usage.
Just as spreadsheets democratized casual quantitative analysis and basic finance, so too is Generative AI democratizing casual natural language processing and image generation and analysis tasks. The legions of Generative AI users are “citizen AI developers” in much the same way that no-code and low-code users have been empowered as citizen developers.
?? As with all things AI, the truth lies in the Pattern of AI that’s being used as well as the scope and nature of the project.
Some patterns of AI with narrow scope and rapid iteration cycles can indeed be accomplished with Citizen AI Developers. This is especially the case with Conversational pattern and aspects of pattern & anomaly and recognition patterns.?
But many of the other patterns of AI, any AI project with a large enough scope, or AI systems that need more than just prompt engineering, such as the development of a new or even fine-tuned LLMs, or more than a basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) will need more than just a casual citizen AI developer.
Who is on the Modern AI Team??
The AI team is now expanded beyond the previous class of high-skills driven talent and even further beyond more casual AI users to include those who are involved in aspects of keeping AI systems trustworthy and reliable.
Legal, regulatory, ethical, responsible, governed, and transparency requirements are causing organizations to broaden the AI team beyond the narrow groups focused on line-of-business or product needs to include groups responsible for privacy, compliance, risk, ethics, governance, and even aspects of intellectual property licensing and management.
This means that the modern AI team is much broader and complex than the previous “research-y” teams that comprised data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data engineers. AI has broadened outside of this almost niche aspect of technology to be much more all-encompassing, which means that AI is a team effort, and everyone is on the AI team.
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Absolutely love this shift in #AI! ?? It reminds me of Warren Buffet’s insight on making complex things simple. By empowering everyday users, we're democratizing innovation. ?? Let's keep breaking barriers together!