Presentation by John Thompson, University of Michigan

GenAI technology is not showing any signs of slowing down, in fact, the entire area seems to be accelerating. Innovations are being developed and delivered at impressive speeds. Enterprises and developers alike are trying to make decisions on how to develop tools, technologies, applications, and solutions. Data professionals are seeking to understand how to leverage these tools to convert data into information, information in knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. In these past 3 years, we have gone from using approximately 1% of the world’s data to at least 100%. That change alone has been mind bending. GenAI and AI in general hold great promise to deliver value and insights leveraging more than 100% of the world’s existing data. In this session we will discuss the short, but dynamic world of GenAI, and project forward what we will see in the next 3 to 5 years and then in the next 10 to 30 years.