Putting machine learning into production is more complex than simply creating ML models and delivering them as prediction APIs. Because of deployment complexity, a lack of governance mechanisms, and various other factors, only a few ML projects make it to production. Once deployed, ML models frequently fail to react to changes in the environment and its dynamic data, resulting in performance loss.
This allows us to determine when to retrain it with the most recent data and implementation approaches and then redeploy it in production.
To achieve a productive circle, a well formulated CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) infrastructure is necessary. This is further helped by a consistent model training best suited for ML. An ML pipeline with the capability of automating model retraining, when deployed, will allow you to adapt to immediate and sudden shifts in your data and business.
As the world progresses toward ubiquitous connectedness, everything – devices, machines, cameras, and humans – generates massive amounts of data in the form of logs, audios, photos, videos, and other media.
Accelerating Deployment of AI Applications: Issues and Opportunities
Organizations are increasingly analyzing these data points to extract intelligence and develop new services. Building intelligence entails searching for patterns in large data sets using technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning to construct future factories, autonomous vehicles, innovative and safe cities, smart farms, and so on. Some of the essential concerns that AI stakeholders must examine to expedite their AI programmes are highlighted below:
- Data set
- Infrastructure and network
- Algorithms and frameworks
- AI deployment, model management and governance
Each AI application has its level of complexity. It is advantageous to have a knowledgeable AI Performance Management (AIPM) team. Expertise on AI application development, the creation of reference architectures, frameworks, and tools, and an understanding of governance procedures, are expected of the team.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is already having a significant impact on how we interact with our surroundings. AI has essential applications in various industries since it is a potent set of technologies that may assist people in solving everyday difficulties.
One such industry is transportation, where AI applications are already reshaping how we convey people and commodities. AI offers chances to make transportation safer, more dependable, efficient, and greener, from analyzing traffic patterns to avoid road accidents to optimizing sailing routes to reduce emissions. Several uses of AI in both established and emerging economies demonstrate the benefits these evolving technologies may make to economies; however, technology’s challenges must be carefully managed.
AI will influence infrastructure decisions
AI is estimated to stay seated as one of the biggest influence to the workload and infrastructure decisions at least till 2023. Accelerating AI pilots into production necessitates developing specific infrastructure resources that can expand and evolve in tandem with technology. To ensure high success rates, the enterprise IT team will need to modify AI models regularly. Standardizing data pipelines or combining machine learning (ML) models with streaming data sources to offer real-time predictions are examples of this.
Collaborative approach is used to mitigate the complexities of AI approaches
The complexity of data and analytics is one of the significant technological obstacles in exploiting AI techniques like ML or deep neural networks (DNN) in edge and IoT (Internet of Things) contexts. The efficient AI deployment in these circumstances will mandate a sturdy collaborative spirit between the business and IT. When new business demands arise, plan ahead of time and provide ready solutions – a concept known as infrastructure-led disruption.
Simple ML techniques sometimes make the most sense
More than 75% of enterprises will utilize DNNs for use cases that could benefit from traditional ML techniques by 2022. Early AI adopters who were successful used the pragmatic ML solutions to generate commercial benefit. These early experiments relied on typical statistical machine learning, but as the group grew, they developed more complex techniques based on deep learning to expand the influence of AI. Sift through the AI hype to understand the range of solutions for addressing business problems. Choose simplicity over popular but complex solutions.
Make cloud service providers part of your strategy
The strategic use of cloud technologies such as cognitive APIs, containers, and server less computing can aid in the complex process of installing AI. Cloud-based AI will grow 5X from 2019 to 2023, making AI one of the top cloud services. Containers and server less computing will allow ML models to perform independently, lowering costs and overhead. Because of its rapid scalability, a server less programming style is particularly desirable in public cloud environments. Still, IT administrators should identify current ML projects that might benefit from these new computing capabilities.
Adopt AI-augmented automation beyond the surface level
Along with the growth of the volume of data related to enterprises, the problem of false alarm and a lack of proper problems prioritization, increase. It doesn’t help that IT and business units sometimes don’t speak the same language when it comes to AI. By embracing AI-augmented automation, IT teams may better master AI capabilities and position themselves for more productive partnerships with external business units. It can be thus established that by 2023, around 40% of I&O teams in the big organizations, will have AI-augmented automation. This will thus drastically increase the agility, efficiency and scalability of the IT.
Conclusion
MLOps holds the key to expediting AI research and deployment, allowing organizations to gain ongoing economic value while deploying and monitoring an increasing number of AI applications in production.
However, in our quest to establish continuous development and delivery (CI/CD) of data and ML intensive apps, we frequently need to combine numerous technologies to make AI deployment simpler, more efficient, and scalable, as well as to account for a growing number of use cases of increasing complexity. This is a challenging, time-consuming, and labour-intensive task. Is there finally an open-source technology that can manage the entire process, abstract away the complexity, and offer scalable, production-ready deployments?
MLOps Orchestration can indeed simplify the process of bringing data science to production in any context (multi-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid), from data collection and preparation (across real-time / streaming, historic, structured, or unstructured data) to model deployment and monitoring.
