Modern AI for Analyzing Large Structured Databases: Opportunities and Challenges

Modem AI is revolutionizing the way we interact with and analyze large structured databases. Natural language interfaces to structured data are now a reality, and core tasks like forecasting are becoming more accurate via large scale modeling of the interaction among related variables. With the dizzying pace of progress on integrating LLMs with structured data, data analysis can be contextualized to real-world knowledge and events. In this talk, I will discuss the latest ML research that is enabling these capabilities. I will also discuss the challenges of reliability and efficiency in existing solutions, and present directions for future research.