Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and FinOps

There is no denying that both artificial intelligence and machine learning are on everyone’s lips. With the rise of tools and digital assistants such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot, Apple’s Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa, it is closer than ever to our everyday lives. Let’s begin by getting a general understanding of what these terms refer to.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to improving the ability of computers and machines to perform human-like tasks in real-world environments and their ability to mimic human thought and cognition, through the use of deep math and logic. From a scientific perspective, we can consider AI as a cross-sectional study field that has as a goal to produce automatic programs that can develop human-like capabilities in single or multiple tasks.

Machine Learning (ML), on the other hand, refers to a subfield of AI focused on technologies and algorithms...