Gartner distinguished VP analyst Mary Mesaglio gives us a recapf of where organisations are today with artificial intelligence (AI) and warns that the AI intent that organisations have today that is orchestrated by the CIO and IT team is shrinking from 100% to 35%.
In its place, bring your own AI (BYOAI) is taking over driven by functional heads who have discovered function-specific AI. Gartner says this will form 22% of AI used in the enterprise. The biggest chunk of AI is what Gartner called embedded AI - AI that vendors put into their software offerings - whether we like it or not.
AI everywhere
Gartner predicts that by 2026 over 80% of enterprise software vendors will have embedded Genai capabilities into their enterprise software offering, up from 5% today, quipped Mesaglio.
Mary Mesaglio
"So that means that even if you did nothing for the whole year... by the end of 2025 you would still have an excess of AI cuz in that embedded AI channel that represents about 43% of the AI in your organisation. And it's coming in whether you like it or not." Mary Mesaglio
Mining the data that is everywhere
Mesaglio comments that data is no longer centrally managed and structured. It (data) is coming from everywhere, opines Mesaglio. She acknowledges that by some estimates up to 20% of data is still structured.
She describes the other 80% of data as the unstructured data that comes in the form of video or the HR policy PDF or the recording of a customer service audio and emails that we generated. "Unstructured data used to be really hard to get to the value of it. "One of GenAI's superpowers is its ability to access and activate all the unstructured data in your enterprise," comments Mesaglio.
She concedes this process to be "not cheap but not impossible. Click on the video to know more.
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