Making great products with generative AI (SEG102)

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Summarizing the Art of the Possible with Generative AI

Operational Improvement Use Cases

  • Many software companies focus on two types of use cases with generative AI - operational improvement and product embedding.
  • Operational improvement use cases include:
    • Customer self-service
    • Improving revenue operations and content creation for marketing
    • Generating synthetic test data to improve resilience and scalability
    • Speeding up software development with tools like Amazon CodeGuru

Product Embedding Use Cases

  • More strategic use cases involve embedding generative AI capabilities directly into products as part of the overall product strategy.
    • Investing in differentiation by enhancing existing product capabilities
    • Generating new products like chatbots or co-pilots
    • Streamlining user experiences and reducing "toil" for customers
    • Improving automation and summarizing operational data or "dark data"

The Financial Impact of Generative AI

  • According to McKinsey, 15-40% of companies' incremental economic impact can come from generative AI investments.
  • Some companies are already attributing 10% of EBIT increases to their generative AI initiatives.

Building Organizational Capabilities for Generative AI

Required Skills

  • Prompt engineering
  • Critical thinking to evaluate outputs
  • Ability to turn data into value
  • Process re-engineering and task automation
  • Effective change management

Organizational Models

  • Many companies are adopting a "Center of Excellence" model, with a core team providing shared services and embedding capabilities into product teams.
  • Different design paradigms are emerging, such as "immersive" experiences that infuse AI across the product, versus "co-pilot" experiences with more discrete AI assistants.

Mastering Data for Generative AI

  • Companies need to establish data ownership, privacy, and governance models to effectively leverage their unique "dark data" for differentiation.
  • Key capabilities include data collection, cleaning, annotation, versioning, and lineage tracking.

Technical Considerations for Scaling Generative AI

Data Platforms and Governance

  • Treat data as a product, establishing tenets around privacy, consent, and ownership.
  • Enable the use of multiple models to achieve the required accuracy for each use case.
  • Maintain flexibility to scale and control costs, using a variety of approaches like prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning.

Balancing Accuracy, Speed, and Cost

  • Determine the minimum required accuracy for each use case, then optimize the approach accordingly.
  • Fine-tuning and pre-training can improve accuracy, but increase complexity and cost.
  • Context management is crucial to balance inference costs with required performance.

AWS Resources for Software Companies

  • AWS offers a range of products, services, and programs to support software companies in their generative AI journeys, including:
    • Infrastructure for building and deploying models
    • Tools for organizational capabilities like shared services
    • Pre-built use cases like Amazon CodeGuru and Amazon QuickSight Q
    • Accelerator programs to help identify and validate high-value opportunities

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