Metadata
- Author: Tristan Handy
- Full Title:: Let’s Talk About AI…
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Analysis, Foundational models,
- URL:: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/lets-talk-about-ai
- Finished date:: 2024-03-18
Highlights
My answer to that is: reasoning about causality. The core job of a data practitioner is to look through tons of data to answer questions about causality. Not to say “this is true” but rather, “this data suggests that this could be true.” An AI that could do this consistently and effectively would be a massive change to the practice of analytics. (View Highlight)
But the problem I identified at the beginning of the post was fundamentally that AI systems are not currently solving the problems that sophisticated data teams actually have today…! Will these advances actually change this underlying fact? I think it will, if you pair it with a single trend from the data space: the advance of the metadata platform. (View Highlight)
Frank Slootman is famous for saying “you can’t have an AI strategy without a data strategy.” I think you cannot have an AI strategy—for analytics—without a metadata strategy. (View Highlight)