Where have all the AI flowers gone? - Tom Austin

Have you put a real killer application that exploits AI into volume production use? As of last year, only 4 (that's FOUR) percent of 3,182 CIOs world-wide report they've put an AI-related application into production (or planned to do so within the next 12 months.) CIOs don't always know everything going on in the enterprise, but this number most likely isn't off by more than a factor of 2. (And maybe eight percent of enterprises have such an application in production, but 8 percent is probably an overestimate.) On 27 June this year, we published research for our clients on AI Technical Maturity for Enterprise Architects and Technology Innovators. On the face of it, there has been breathtaking progress on AI in the last decade: The science of AI continues to blaze new, highly valuable trails.