As Maynard Williams , Managing Director , UK at Accenture , describes , these consumergrade tools have made AI accessible to a broader audience . “ We ’ ve seen a flood of interest in generative AI in the last 12 months – with consumer-grade tools like ChatGPT putting AI into the hands of everyone in a way that simply wasn ’ t possible before . With generative AI front of mind for business leaders , many CIOs have been tasked with incorporating it into their business at record speed – and this has implications on cloud usage and dependency .

“ Our advice remains the same : focus on addressing the business problems you need to solve – and then identify the right technology and processes to do that . On many occasions , the question businesses have been trying to answer is ‘ how do we use AI as quickly as possible ?’, not ‘ how do we fix this business problem ?’. Addressing the latter will drive the change they ’ re looking for – and in some cases the answer will be AI .”

As pointed out by Agustin Huerta , Senior VP of Digital Innovation at Globant , the last year has seen competition among cloud service providers aiming to furnish superior AI models . “ The most significant impacts were related to the competition among cloud service providers to offer the most important AI models . Some of them , such as Google and AWS , developed their own

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