Gartner's chief of Research, Chris Howard, explains the race among AI vendors to innovate and create value for end users.
"The truth is that you may be in one or the other, but you're not in both because both are exhausting. And so if you are a vendor or a supplier of AI technology, you're innovating at the pace that you need to innovate to be competitive and to bring new things to market," he posits.
Howard added that organisations must choose their pace, whether the careful AI-steady pace or the competitive AI-accelerated one.
AI technology sandwich
Howard shared that Gartner has devised a strategic 'AI technology sandwich'. This framework empowers executive leaders to balance innovation, governance, and security while maximising AI's potential. It includes 'data everywhere and every kind' on top and 'data centralised' at the bottom.
"All of this is about augmenting the ability to make decisions based on tons of complex data and patterns in your environment. You have data coming from outside, people bringing their AI into that environment, embedded AI coming from the vendors themselves, and then down underneath your IT staff is also building AI applications, consuming data, building data fabrics, etc." Howard explained.
Howard underscored the importance of having the right equipment in a race, pointing out that the AI tech sandwich is the equipment to achieve results in the AI race.
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