Data benefits AI; Data on AI benefits

Without data there is no AI. Without AI, data is…well, it’s complicated.

Getting your data house in order is at the top of the list in AWS’s recently released Executive Blueprint for Enterprise AI Transformation, underscoring the urgency to rethink data strategy for the times ahead. “As large language models and base models become widely accessible via out-of-the-box apps, the differentiation lies not in the model itself, but in the quality, structure and accessibility of the underlying data,” explain the draft authors.

Absolutely.

This means tapping into information from a variety of new or previously underused resources. “Unlike traditional systems that rely primarily on structured data, genAI requires comprehensive access to all data types – including unstructured and multimodal formats such as video, audio, text and code – with real-time access.”

With the need to manage data comes the need for transformation.