Architecture and (Gen)AI

As AI and GenAI become more prevalent in organizations, we need to consider the architectural implications. AI and GenAI in different ways will affect our architectural decisions. There are also architectural implications for how we might implement AI and GenAI in our IT estates. We will examine architectural issues at the hardware, model, infrastructure, tools and the application layer, For models, we will consider issues surrounding mostly serving models, although we will have some discussion about training models. Finally, we will discuss how AI changes the role of architect and the new challenges that will arise for architects.