Generative AI: Coming to an ERP Near You

March 22, 2023 Alex Woodie

Don’t look now, but generative AI technology like ChatGPT is spreading into every aspect of computing, including the large enterprise applications at the heart of business. The technology may not be on IBM i-based ERP suites yet, but it’s just a matter of time.

The sophistication of AI technology has been building steadily for the past 10 years, thanks to the adoption of massive neural networks that can be trained on huge amounts of unstructured data, such as text and images.

Dubbed deep learning, the brute-force approach paid handsome dividends for two computational problems in particular: computer vision and natural …