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\chapter{Introduction}
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have recently started enjoying widespread industry awareness and adoption; the use of AI is increasingly prevalent in all sectors \cite{wirtz2019artificial,bosch2021engineering}. The reasons behind this are manifold \cite{jordan2015machine}, to name a few: recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), increased public awareness, an abundance of available data, access to powerful low-cost commodity hardware, education, but most interestingly, the rise of high-level libraries making ready-to-use state-of-the-art (SOTA) models easily available. The latter practically abolishes the barrier of entry for applying AI --- and with that --- can help use cases in various areas.
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have recently started enjoying widespread industry awareness and adoption; the use of AI is increasingly prevalent in all sectors \cite{wirtz2019artificial,bosch2021engineering}. The reasons behind this are manifold \cite{jordan2015machine}, to name a few: recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), increased public awareness, an abundance of available data, access to powerful low-cost commodity hardware, education, but most interestingly, the rise of high-level libraries making ready-to-use state-of-the-art (SOTA) models easily available. The latter radically lowers the barrier of entry for applying AI --- and with that --- can help use cases in various areas.
However, to achieve robust deployments, the successful integration of AI components into production-ready applications demands strong engineering methods \cite{serban2020adoption}. That is why it is as essential as ever to also focus on the quality and robustness of deployed models and software. For instance, the lack of a proper overview of data transformation steps may lead to suboptimal performance and to introducing unintended biases, which might contribute to the ever-increasing negative externality of misused AI \cite{o2016weapons}.
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This thesis sets out to investigate the reasons behind the apparent asymmetry between industry adoption of accessible AI-libraries and existing reusable solutions for robust AI deployments. It is hypothesised that the primary reason for the underwhelming adoption rate of best practices is the short supply of professionals equally proficient in the domains of both data science and software engineering. Nevertheless, even without their presence, practitioners could rely on frameworks to achieve some level of automation and maturity in their deployment processes. However, the barrier of entry for using such existing libraries is too high, especially when compared with the simplicity of AI-libraries.
Therefore, a software framework --- called \href{https://github.com/schmelczer/great-ai}{\textit{GreatAI}} --- is designed, and its design is presented in this thesis. The principal motivation behind the construction of \textit{GreatAI} is to facilitate the responsible and robust deployment of algorithms and models by designing a more accessible API in an attempt to overcome the practical drawbacks of other similar frameworks. Its name stands for its main aim: to assist easily creating \underline{G}eneral \underline{R}obust \underline{E}nd-to-end \underline{A}utomated, and \underline{T}rustworthy AI deployments.
Therefore, we design a software framework called \href{https://github.com/schmelczer/great-ai}{\textit{GreatAI}} and present it in this thesis. The principal motivation behind the construction of \textit{GreatAI} is to facilitate the responsible and robust deployment of algorithms and models by designing a more accessible API in an attempt to overcome the practical drawbacks of other similar frameworks. Its name stands for its main aim: to assist easily creating \underline{G}eneral \underline{R}obust \underline{E}nd-to-end \underline{A}utomated, and \underline{T}rustworthy AI deployments.
The utility of \textit{GreatAI} is validated using the principles of design science methodology \cite{wieringa2014design} through iteratively designing its API and implementation in a case study concerning the natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for a commercial product in collaboration with \href{https://scoutinscience.com/}{ScoutinScience B.V.} The goal of the aforementioned software suite is to evaluate technology transfer opportunities in scientific publications. Subsequently, interviews are conducted with practitioners to validate the generalisability of the design.
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\section{Research questions}
I hypothesise that facilitating the adoption of AI deployment best practices is viable by finding less complex framework designs that are easier to adopt in order to decrease the negative externality of misused AI. This paper investigates the hypothesis by answering the following research questions.
We hypothesise that facilitating the adoption of AI deployment best practices is viable by finding less complex framework designs that are easier to adopt in order to decrease the negative externality of misused AI. This paper investigates the hypothesis by answering the following research questions.
\begin{rqlist}
\item To what extent does the complexity of deploying AI hinder industrial applications?