Is it fool’s gold? Spotting AI offers worth your time

​AI tools and consulting offers are everywhere. Many promise to solve a workflow problem, and the pitches can sound convincing. Yet tools that appear similar can work in very different ways. How do you tell which offers deserve your time and investment before you buy?

​In this Unordinary breakdown, we will unpack the technology behind common AI tools in plain English. We will look at why LLMs work well for some tasks and make others worse, and how integrating more varied AI solutions can fill these gaps. You’ll leave with a way to judge an offer against your requirements and questions to put to sellers about its evidence, limits and fit with your work.

​Facilitated by Scott Howsam, Lead Software Engineer at Unordinary. Scott holds an ANU Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Research & Development) with First Class Honours, specialising in AI. His honours research combined machine learning and symbolic AI. Scott has built an AI e-discovery platform to find and analyse information across document sets. His work also pairs language models with rule-based steps to reduce the risk of small errors compounding.