The Inflation of AI: Is More Always Better?

New ML models emerge hourly but this fast pace comes with drawbacks; hypothesis-driven development can help to mitigate those.

We live in the age of AI! Every day, many new AI tools and ML models are being created, trained, released, and often advertised. When looking at Hugging Face for instance, we see almost 400,000 models available today (2023–11–06) compared to the ~84,000 models available in November 2022 (see Figure 1). In just one year, there’s been a massive…