SAP Business AI enhances the capabilities of SAP applications, enabling them to learn and improve business outcomes. This leads to significant improvements in key business processes, giving customers access to more intelligent and automated solutions. SAP Business AI is infused across the SAP product portfolio, and every embedded scenario has undergone a rigorous AI ethics process.
Generative AI enables completely new capabilities in business software. With Generative AI, new content can be created, complex information can be summarized, computer code can be written, and more. It is a new generation of AI that can reason through business problems and make suggestions.
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More information about SAP Business AI strategy is available here: https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence.html.
Key Terms in Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): A technology that equips machines with human-like capabilities such as problem-solving, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation, seen in everyday applications like AI assistants and facial recognition software.
- Machine Learning (ML): A subset of AI that focuses on enabling computer systems to learn and improve from experience or data, incorporating elements from fields like computer science, statistics, and psychology.
- Deep Learning: A branch of Machine Learning that uses multi-layered neural networks to analyze complex data patterns, and it may employ different learning methods like supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning depending upon the task and available data.
- Generative AI (GenAI): Generative AI is a form of deep learning that utilizes foundation models, such as large language models, to create new content, which can include text, images, sound, and videos, based on the data they were trained on.
- Foundation models: AI systems that use self-supervised learning on vast data to perform various tasks, such as writing documents or creating images. Their versatility and adaptability make them a significant advancement in AI, lowering the barriers to adoption.
- Large language models (LLMs): Large language models are a subcategory of foundation models used for text and computer code.
A good overview of these SAP Business AI capabilities can be found in the following learning journey: https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/exploring-the-sap-business-ai-portfolio.
