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New Global O'Reilly Report Finds 85% of Organizations Are Evaluating or Using Artificial Intelligence in ProductionO'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the results of its 2020 artificial intelligence (AI) survey, "AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2020." The benchmark report uncovers trends in the evaluation, implementation, and outcomes of AI enterprise adoption over the past year. Findings reveal that more than half of respondents are in the "mature" phase of AI adoption - defined by those currently using AI for analysis or in production - while about one third are evaluating AI, and 15% of report not doing anything with AI. These numbers demonstrate growth when compared with O'Reilly's 2019 AI Adoption in the Enterprise report, which found just 27% of organizations in the "mature" adoption phase and 54% in the evaluation phase. When it comes to data governance, more than 26% of respondents say their organizations plan to institute formal data governance processes and/or tools by 2021 and nearly 35% expect this to happen in the next three years. Currently, just one-fifth of respondent organizations report having formal data governance processes and/or tools to support and complement their AI projects, similar to findings uncovered in the O'Reilly Data Quality Survey. Difficulties in hiring and retaining people with AI skills was once again noted as a top barrier to AI adoption in the enterprise, down slightly from 18% in 2019. As in 2019, the biggest bottleneck to AI adoption was reported to be a lack of institutional support (22%), followed by "Difficulties in identifying appropriate business use cases" at 20%. "AI practices are maturing, and adopters are experimenting with sophisticated AI techniques and tools, which bodes well for the future advancement of AI in the enterprise," said Rachel Roumeliotis, O'Reilly Strata Data & AI conference co-chair and strategic content director at O'Reilly. "However, organizations will continue to struggle to expand and scale their AI practices if they don't address the importance of data governance and data conditioning in ML and AI development." Other notable findings include:
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