The Changing Role of Enterprise Data Teams in the World of LLMs
14 Jun 2023
Practitioners
Practitioners Stage
For the past decade or so, the role of the data science teams has been relatively straightforward - collect and refine data, work on creating and training the models, build proof-of-concepts then hand it over to the application developers. Lately, with the advent of the Transformer models and with the LLMs in particular, building an NLP functionality into a new or a legacy product has become a necessity and a must-have. How is the application development lifecycle changing, is there an 'agile NLP,' what new tasks suddenly appeared, and what is the role of a data team in this fast-paced world where models have just become a commodity?