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Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Eli Whitney is well-known for his invention of the cotton gin and for using the budding approach of interchangeable parts to produce his ingenious device. Thomas Jefferson was later to credit the dawning of the machine age to Eli Whitney.
We now know that interchangeable parts is crucial to any kind of mass production.
A close brethen of interchangeable parts is the concept of modularization.
It makes sense to structure or architect your device or system into a series of modules when you are considering using an interchangeable parts approach. By decomposing something into various components or modules, you then can devise them so that they fit together well.
In the software field, any software engineer worth their salt knows that modularity is vital to developing software. This is especially the case when the software is large-scale in size.
The development of AI systems is likewise usually benefited by structuring the system into modules. You are bound to have parts of the AI system that are leveraging AI techniques and capabilities, meanwhile there are likely other parts that are more conventional in their approach. You can architect the overall…
