Organizations with an interdisciplinary team have a "far higher ratio of success" when deploying AI projects, said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, speaking at a Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas session last week. Interdisciplinary teams that blend roles across business and data science have a higher ratio of success with AI projects, as well as a faster time to production. This trend "clearly tells us that AI needs to be a team sport, said Chandrasekaran. "However, in reality what we see in most organizations is data scientists wearing too many hats, because there's a dearth of skills across other areas," he said. Organizations with an interdisciplinary team have a "far higher ratio of success" when deploying AI projects, said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, speaking at a Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas session last week. Interdisciplinary teams that blend roles across business and data science have a higher ratio of success with AI projects, as well as a faster time to production. This trend "clearly tells us that AI needs to be a team sport, said Chandrasekaran.

These days, writing is typing. And it looks as if the layout of QWERTY keyboards is influencing the way we feel about certain words. Our relationship with the written word has changed in the last few years. We read words differently on a screen to how we read them on paper, for example. And using keyboards – both on phones and computers – has given rise to txtspk and popular acronyms such as "OMG" and "ROFL".