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Synthesis Head of Marketing and Communications Howard Feldman sits down with Practice Lead for Intelligent Data Engineering Archie Arakkal to discuss practical AI and how undervalued LLM\u2019s (Large Language Models) are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"ptype":[115],"sectors":[28],"class_list":["post-16820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversation","ptype-tv","sectors-intelligent"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is Practical AI? - Synthesis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read: 'What is Practical AI?' and more on the Synthesis blog for insights on the latest in the Tech and Software development industry.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is Practical AI?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read: 'What is Practical AI?' and more on the Synthesis blog for insights on the latest in the Tech and Software development industry.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Synthesis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-16T10:11:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-16T10:18:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What-is-Practical-AI.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Synthesis Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Synthesis Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Synthesis Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/a1cde004c078942c45be61a61cd6ae2c\"},\"headline\":\"What is Practical AI?\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-16T10:11:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-16T10:18:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\"},\"wordCount\":36,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What-is-Practical-AI.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Conversations\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.co.za\/what-is-practical-ai\/\",\"name\":\"What is Practical AI? 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