The AI Framework — Develop a Holistic Understanding for Developing, Using and Learning AI

Howdy 🤖,

In this article I’d like to introduce the AI Framework — my current mental model of the entire Artificial Intelligence playing field.

The framework helps me keeping an overview of what’s happening across the many areas of AI — cutting-edge frontier models, new exciting use cases, new tools by AI startups, breakthrough hardware developments and many more. Besides the main aspects of AI development and usage, the AI framework also covers foundational aspects like ethics, governance and the return on investment (ROI) of AI.

Let’s dive in and I tell you more about it…

The AI space was multi-layered with many bits and pieces in place, which enable the development of an AI solution, for a long time. This hasn’t really changed. But it has become even more complex since the steep rise of Generative AI from 2022 onwards.

We see an accelerated mainstream interest and mass adoption of solutions like ChatGPT. This leads to lots of additional development efforts across the levels of the AI stack and a general push to advance AI as quickly as possible to reap the benefits, especially by tech companies.