Data Brew by Databricks
Welcome to Data Brew by Databricks with Denny and Brooke! In this series, we explore various topics in the data and AI community and interview subject matter experts in data engineering/data science. So join us with your morning brew in hand and get ready to dive deep into data + AI! For this first season, we will be focusing on lakehouses – combining the key features of data warehouses, such as ACID transactions, with the scalability of data lakes, directly against low-cost object stores.
Data Brew by Databricks
Enterprise AI: Research to Product | Data Brew | Episode 43
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Databricks
In this episode, Dipendra Kumar, Staff Research Scientist, and Alnur Ali, Staff Software Engineer at Databricks, discuss the challenges of applying AI in enterprise environments and the tools being developed to bridge the gap between research and real-world deployment.
Highlights include:
- The challenges of real-world AI—messy data, security, and scalability.
- Why enterprises need high-accuracy, fine-tuned models over generic AI APIs.
- How QuickFix learns from user edits to improve AI-driven coding assistance.
- The collaboration between research & engineering in building AI-powered tools.
- The evolving role of developers in the age of generative AI.
