AI hype hits reality roadblock | Computer Weekly
Summary
The headline-grabbing revenue of chipmaker Nvidia is an indicator of how much money is being spent on building infrastructure to support AI inference and machine learning workloads, but in reality, many businesses are struggling with the technology. However, a survey from Sapio Research for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) found that only one-third (32%) of IT leaders in the UK and Ireland believe their organisations are fully set up to realise the benefits of AI. The business leaders polled in the KPMG survey cited the inaccuracy of results, including hallucinations, as the biggest concern when adopting GenAI (60%). According to KPMG, boards are also worried about errors in the underlying data and information skewing the model’s outputs (53%), as well as problems related to cyber security (50%). HPE also reported that fewer than six in 10 respondents said their organisation was completely capable of handling any of the key stages of data preparation for use in AI models – from accessing (57%) and storing (51%), to analysing (54%) and processing (52%).