During an interview conducted before the Intelligent Automation Conference, Ben Ball, the Senior Director of Product Marketing at IBM, provided insights into the company’s most recent artificial intelligence initiatives and its revolutionary Concert product
IBM’s AI research and development central focus is implementing this technology in technological operations. Ball elaborated, “As individuals endeavor to develop applications for the global audience, the circumstance grows more intricate.
“Many teams are simply overwhelmed by the amount of data involved in the development and ongoing maintenance of an application because there are so many environments and tools involved.”
To address this difficulty, the organization has introduced IBM Concert. This system utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the enormous volumes of data associated with application development and maintenance. “It utilizes artificial intelligence to determine how your application actually operates and then provides suggestions for improving it,” Ball explained.
Impending opportunities in AI
As stated by Ball, the organization of the unstructured data that AI models consume is a current opportunity. He acknowledged, “There may be a gap between the unstructured amoeba of data and what you want in AI, which is sorted and ready to go.”
Nevertheless, IBM is currently engaged in proactive efforts to address this disparity; IBM Concert, slated to undergo development, will integrate functionalities that facilitate data organization in a more understandable format for artificial intelligence engines.
IBM Concert aims to tackle the additional essential aspect of AI that pertains to explainability. Ball underscored the significance of exercising caution when adopting AI recommendations, asserting, “We are, in fact, integrating a feature that allows you to scrutinize the recommendation, thereby enabling you to scrutinize the AI’s reasoning and delve a little more deeply into the process by which it arrived at that conclusion.”
Driving the progression of labor
IBM provides a suite of AI technologies and tools, including Watsonx AI governance solutions and IBM Concert. As Ball elucidated, IBM endeavors to offer a “use-case-neutral” strategy that permits clients to utilize its AI functionalities per their particular requirements.
A domain in which IBM Concert has demonstrated initial efficacy is mitigating the data inundation numerous organizations encounter. Ball stated that design collaborators have been “astonished by the capabilities we possess and the fundamental insights we are capable of demonstrating.”
IBM anticipates that further advancements in the capabilities of IBM Concert will yield more profound insights and conclusions, ultimately leading to enhancements in application performance, security, and overall administration.
Ball offers unambiguous guidance for organizations contemplating their initial foray into AI adoption: “Consider your intended uses carefully. Instead of merely approaching AI to improve the technology, approach it with a concrete use case and objective you wish to achieve with AI.
IBM, a major sponsor of the forthcoming Intelligent Automation Conference, intends to exhibit the IBM Concert and its capacity to revolutionize technological operations via the influence of artificial intelligence.
Our complete interview with Ben Ball is available below:
After the interview, Ball conveyed enthusiasm regarding the potential of the IBM Concert, remarking, “We are genuinely ecstatic about this, and we are confident that our customers will share our enthusiasm as well.”