As the initial hype for artificial intelligence dies down, the question of which trends are going to stick around is on everyone’s minds.Causal AI and small language models are the answer, according to Scott Hebner (pictured), principal analyst of AI at theCUBE Research. Ultimately, he believes these trends will coalesce into a cohesive machine learning architecture.“We’re very much in the infancy of AI,” he said. “There’s some trends that are starting to develop. Now they are going to converge over time into more of an architectural approach, and I think that is the notion of causal AI, the actual ability to reason, problem-solve, understand cause and effect