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This is Five Minute Friday with a holiday greeting from all of us at the SuperDataScience
Podcast.
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Welcome back to the Super Data Science Podcast. I’m your host, Jon Krohn. 2024 was
unquestionably the fastest-moving year yet for A.I. 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 A.I. – 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.
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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 A.I. transforming every industry and overhauling our way of life; if we
get the tricky parts right, then this will be the better for all of us on this planet.
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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.
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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 also 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.
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From all of us here at the SuperDataScience Podcast, happy holidays!
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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 the 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 rockin’ it out there and I’m looking forward
to enjoying another round of the SuperDataScience podcast with you very soon.
