848: Happy Holidays from the SuperDataScience Podcast
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This is 5-Minute Friday with a holiday greeting from all of us at the Super Data Science Podcast. Welcome back to the Super Data Science Podcast. I am your host, Jon Krohn. 2024 was unquestionably the fastest moving year yet for AI innovation. In particular, we witnessed the meteoric rise of generative AI from its largely proof-of-concept phase to being commercially indispensable.

According to survey results, nearly two-thirds of organizations are now regularly using generative AI, a number that has almost doubled since a year earlier.

From enhancing product development to facilitating medical breakthroughs, GenAI has become a cornerstone of innovation across industries. For those of us who practice data science hands-on, GenAI has proved itself to be near magical at composing functional code and debugging our errors. Indeed, as we'll discuss in detail in next Tuesday's episode with Sadie St. Lawrence,

This year, GenAI models crossed reliability and accuracy thresholds, enabling it to power independently acting AI agents, even multi-agent systems that can tackle complex tasks without human supervision. 2025 looks set to be the year agentic AI takes center stage, the next phase in AI transforming every industry and overhauling our way of life. If we get the tricky parts right, then this will be for the better for all of us on this planet.

I hope you've enjoyed our exploration of these developments and much more in depth over the course of the year through our podcast episodes, allowing you to hear directly from leading experts and practitioners like Andrew Ng, Bernard Marr, and Sol Rashidi. Our discussions have covered a wide range of topics from the industrialization of data science processes to the ethical considerations surrounding AI implementation.

Through exploring the tricky bits like ethics and equity alongside the breathtaking technological breakthroughs, I hope that overall we've left you feeling optimistic about our capacity as a species to get this tech revolution right and have it benefit all of us. This holiday season, I hope you'll be able to sit with these positive vibes, get some time away from your screened devices, and enjoy the wonder of life, including how lucky we are to be alive at this extraordinary time in history with your loved ones.

From all of us here at the Super Data Science Podcast, happy holidays. All right. That's it for today's short episode, maybe mercifully short after my Friday episodes. I've tended to, over the course of this year, get longer and longer. Certainly a multi-year trend of Friday episodes getting longer. So today, you're getting off easy with a five-minute Friday that is actually less than five minutes long.

All right, that's it for today's episode. Until next time, keep on rocking it out there, and I'm looking forward to enjoying another round of the Super Data Science Podcast with you very soon.