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Guide The Business Guide to Generative AI (Let’s get your data talking)

The Business Guide to Generative AI (Let’s get your data talking)

AI is everywhere these days. It’s organising your emails, checking your spelling, and touching up your photos. At this point, even your Granny has had a go with ChatGPT.

But here’s the thing. How much influence is AI having on the ‘make or break’ moments at your company? For lots of organisations we speak to, the answer is still ‘not much’.

Which is strange, because the commercial opportunity is huge. Gartner estimate that 90% of all enterprise data is unstructured and held in formats like free text, audio files or pictures. Until recently, that unstructured data has been locked away behind barriers of cost and effort. But thanks to recent advances in AI, it’s all suddenly in play. Just imagine the transformative insights on offer if you can get that unstructured data talking.

Guide Plugged In or Left Out? Navigating the Emerging Generative AI Gap

Plugged In or Left Out? Navigating the Emerging Generative AI Gap

Generative AI is the buzzword of the moment. Attend any industry conference or skim through the latest Gartner hype cycle, and you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re on the cusp of a generative AI utopia. Everyone’s doing it. Everyone’s winning. Everyone’s transforming their businesses at warp speed.

Except, well… they’re not.

Here at Oakland, we’ve had some revealing conversations while compiling this report on the readiness of major organisations to implement generative AI. Spoiler alert: the reality isn’t quite keeping up with the hype.