Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ryan Meade:

The fact that large language models are large does not mean they are inaccessible to small businesses. Google Gemini is a very large language model that is available to use now. Small businesses can get a lot of value out of it. When it comes to more bespoke applications, such as in the case of a small business that wants to train a model on its own data and so on, there are products coming to market now that will enable it to do that in a very accessible way, without having to take on board any new technology. We need to watch this space. There is quite a lot coming through in this area, as well as there being quite a lot already available right now. The diversity of the types of tools that are available will only increase in the coming year.