Exploring the Future of AI with Dhruv Motwani: Natural Language Processing and Generative AI Insights

Visions of Tomorrow: Dhruv Motwani and the Future of AI

Hello, everyone! I am incredibly excited to welcome you all to today’s forum. We have a special guest joining us - Dhruv Motwani, the head of AI at Avahi, someone who has made tremendous strides in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and more recently, in the cutting-edge world of Generative AI.

Welcome Dhruv. Can you let us know a brief view of your journey till now?

Hi! It has been a pleasure being invited to your forum and I really appreciate this invitation. Early in my career, I threw myself into the deep end of Natural Language Processing (NLP), playing around with language modeling and text analysis. I invested a few years into it building and solving for very crucial use-cases but then a few years later the world found itself at the cusp of this new technology called Generative AI. It was too hard to ignore so I started exploring that and the more I entered it the more I realized it was going to be the future. Fast forward to today, I find myself pushing foundational models to their limits.

Apart from this, time and again, I also find myself contributing enormously to the open-source packages where any developer can whip up GenAI features with just a few lines of code. So, yeah, that's all.

Evolving Innovations: NLP to Generative AI

You have accomplished quite a bit in the area of NLP and later in GenAI. How have you seen the evolution of NLP systems to GenAI over time?

That's a great question! Early on, NLP systems were more rigid, designed to follow specific rules to process and understand language. They worked well for straightforward tasks, like keyword searches or basic sentiment analysis. But as technology evolved, we began to see more advanced approaches that could grasp the context of language better, making NLP much more powerful.

The real game-changer came with models that could not only understand but also generate human-like text. This was the beginning of Generative AI. This shift opened up entirely new possibilities, from automating customer support conversations to generating content and even drafting reports. Now, It’s no longer just about analyzing language, but creating it, which has transformed how businesses can engage with customers and streamline internal operations.

The Transformative Potential of AI Across Industries

From your perspective, what are the most exciting possibilities and the potential scale of impact it can have across industries?