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Generative AI (Gen AI) is an advanced type of artificial intelligence (AI) that creates new content, such as text, images, or music, by learning patterns from existing data. In the maritime industry, Gen AI can improve efficiency while reducing risks by integrating risk assessment and insight summaries into workflows, enhancing communication, ensuring compliance with sanctions, optimizing shipping routes, and much more.
How Does Gen AI Work?
Gen AI is powered by deep learning models. It creates novel content that closely mimics the training data it has been exposed to. This versatile technology can generate a wide array of outputs, including synthesized text, computer code, realistic images, music, and more. When given a prompt, the AI model uses its trained algorithms to predict an appropriate response. Based on these predictions, it generates new and relevant content that aligns with the input prompt. This process allows for the creation of diverse and innovative outputs that can cater to various applications and industries.
What is the Relationship Between Vertical AI and Gen AI?
Vertical AI and Gen AI each serve different purposes and applications, but can be integrated in a complementary way. Vertical AI is designed to service a specific industry or domain, such as healthcare, finance, or the maritime domain. It is highly specialized and optimized to handle its targeted sector’s unique challenges and tasks. For example, Windward’s Maritime AI™. This specialization allows vertical AI to provide deep, expert-level insights and solutions tailored to the needs of its particular field.
Machine learning and predictive analytics make vertical AI a foundational technology that goes far beyond content creation.
Generative AI (Gen AI) focuses on creating new content based on the data it has been trained on. Notable examples of Gen AI include models such as GPT-4, which can generate human-like text, and DALL-E, which creates images from textual descriptions. Gen AI’s ability to generate novel content makes it particularly useful in creative fields, personalized content creation, and any application requiring the synthesis of unique material.
In the maritime industry, Windward has expanded our Maritime AI™ portfolio and built upon our vertical AI foundation to introduce Windward Maritime AI™ Agent™ – MAI Expert™. The industry’s FIRST Gen AI agent is a virtual maritime risk subject matter expert that leverages Windward’s proprietary AI models, and human expertise, using innovative Gen AI engines.
What is a Gen AI Agent?
A Gen AI agent is an advanced AI system designed to autonomously perform tasks that generate content, or make decisions based on learned patterns from vast datasets. These agents can be integrated into organizations’ workflows and leverage the capabilities of generative AI models to produce coherent text, create images, or perform other creative functions.
They can also support research and development by generating hypotheses, summarizing scientific literature, and creating simulation scenarios. Gen AI agents’ ability to produce coherent, contextually relevant content and make informed decisions based on extensive data analysis makes them valuable tools for automation, creativity, and efficiency in almost all domains and professional settings.
Real-Life Applications of Gen AI for the Maritime Domain
In the maritime domain, Gen AI can be used to empower decision-making with comprehensive risk assessments and insight summaries. It could also future-proof risk management with, for example, a virtual maritime expert that provides AI-based actionable recommendations to assess sanctions risk exposure accurately; complete screenings faster; and reduce hiring costs, onboarding time, and reliance on limited staff.
Gen AI can accelerate decision-making processes and standardized communications with automated risk assessments highlighting key insights that truly matter for your business’ bottomline.
What is Data Curation? Data curation involves the active management of data throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage, to archiving and reuse. It is a foundational process that ensures generative AI (Gen AI) models are built on high-quality, accurate, and relevant data. This process includes activities such as data collection, cleaning, annotation, and documentation...
What is Smart Data? Smart data refers to data that is filtered, processed, and analyzed to be actionable and relevant for decision-making. Unlike raw unstructured data, which can be overwhelming and difficult to interpret, smart data is refined to provide meaningful insights, improve efficiency, and drive strategic actions. It often leverages advanced analytics, AI, and...
What is Data Management? Data management involves organizing, storing, and maintaining data to ensure its quality, integrity, and accessibility. It includes processes such as data governance, integration, storage, privacy, and preprocessing, which are crucial for training and deploying reliable and effective generative AI (Gen AI) models. Effective data management ensures that Gen AI models have...
What is Data Governance? Data governance refers to the management of data availability, usability, integrity, and security in an organization. It involves setting policies, standards, and practices to ensure that data is accurate and accessible. In the context of Generative AI (Gen AI), data governance is crucial for ensuring the quality and reliability of the...
What Are LLM Agents? Large language model (LLM) agents are advanced AI systems capable of understanding and generating human-like text based on vast amounts of training data. They use deep learning technology to process and generate natural language. LLM agents are versatile, handling tasks such as language translation, content creation, and query responses. They represent...
