Rapid Growth In AI And Cloud Topics Evident In Latest O'Reilly Annual Report
SiliconANGLE , Thursday, January 25th, 2024
A new report released by O'Reilly Media Inc. finds, not surprisingly, that there was an unprecedented surge of interest in generative artificial intelligence in 2023, based on usage metrics from the O'Reilly Learning Platform.
Last year, O'Reilly saw a 3,600% increase in topics relating to generative AI and generative pretrained transformer models, or GPTs. Natural language processing was the most widely consumed AI topic, up 195% year-over-year, with related topics such as generative models up 900%, transformers up 325% and prompt engineering - a topic that didn't exist in 2022 - also seeing surging interest.
Security was another topic that saw gains, with almost all related security topics showcasing growth from 2022 to 2023. Network security was the most popular topic, seeing 5% year-over-year growth, followed by governance with 22% growth. Interest in application security topics rose 42% and DevSecOps experienced one of the highest increases with 30% year-over-year growth. The increased interest in security topics is said to signal a shift toward incorporating security throughout the software development process.