Breaking Down AI Into IT - The Backend

History has shown that it’s impossible to scale up anything significantly & sustainably – without an underlying structure or framework. So who built this new AI framework? 

Here are the two unconnected, major technology developments which were initiated around the year 2000:

1. The first significant development was the of NVIDIA chip designed for the PC gaming industry - in 1999.

NVIDIA unknowingly laid the foundation of the hardware AI stack, when it launched GeForce256 – a single-chip Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which targeted the PC gaming industry. This was the first chip of its GeForce series.

NVIDIA’s GPU was a new category of processors with
* Parallel  architecture to concurrently process multiple tasks.
* Handle thousands of simultaneous mathematical  calculations.
* Manage multiplication of multi-dimension  matrices.
Perfect for AI.

But NVIDIA did not stop there. Seeing the future, it launched CUDA – its free programming platform for data scientists for complex mathematical simulations & processing large data sets using its super-powerful GPUs. (CUDA stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture.)

That’s why most modern AI software is practically hardwired to run best on Nvidia chips!

(Two decades prior, in 1978 we saw the launch of the Intel 8086 chip, which became the building block of the personal computing revolution that followed.)

2. The second significant development was the launch of Milvus Vector Database & Neo4j Graph Database around year 2000

(Some of you may still remember the DotCom crash & the overhyped Y2K bug!)

Vector & Graph Databases btw, are used today for large scale similar words search & for traversing today’s massive social network data! 

The AI Backend

IT Systems rely on an invisible backend, which is a part of the overall tech stack. This traditionally comprises of 2 major components:

  1. Databases to store large amounts of data. Relational databases were/are the norm to store data sets related to each other in conventional IT Systems
  2. Indexes to speedily fetch data across large datasets, based on single, unique key values. They used a proven method called Binary Search.


So what is the backend on which the prolific AI Platforms rely?

  1. Vector Database / Graph Database
    This database transforms the data into vectors in a multi-dimensional space.
    The vector database labels semantically similar words by converting them into numerical values that are close in value to each other.
     
  2. Small World Network Index
    The index is based on the Small World Network (in turn, based on Graph Theory) — to navigate and locate multiple sets of similar values efficiently in optimal time.
4. Signing Off

The above is just a quick understanding of how conventional IT has been transformed for AI. For the classic IT enthusiast, it would be reassuring to note that the core concept of back end database management is still the underpinning layer, with new models which manage the more complex queries on the humongous sets of loosely-structured data with a huge number of primary keys. 

 

Also, it should be amply clear that we the people should be ready to embrace AI as a part of our lives & businesses – just like we adapted to the software/PC boom in the 1980s & 1990s. 

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