Accenture: Only 16% of companies have figured out how to make AI work at scale

Many companies are stuck in dead-end pilots while an elite few have figured out how to make artificial intelligence (AI) work at scale, according to a new Accenture report. "AI: Built to Scale" shows how difficult this transformation is as well as what it takes to do it successfully. "In a nutshell, what our report found is that the majority of companies are really struggling to scale AI," said Bob Berkey, MD, Accenture Applied Intelligence. "They're stuck in the Proof of Concept Factory, conducting AI experiments and pilots but achieving a low scaling success rate and a low return on their AI investments." Accenture surveyed 1,500 C-level executives across 16 industries to determine what makes AI projects successful.