Accenture’s North America CEO On The Race To Deploy AI At Scale
Jan 02, 2024 - forbes.com
Manish Sharma, CEO of North America at Accenture, has warned that businesses that do not fully embrace General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) risk falling behind their competitors. Accenture is currently six months into a three-year plan to invest $3 billion in expanding its AI capabilities, with around 350 projects underway. Sharma believes that large language models like ChatGPT and Google Bard will impact 40% of working hours and emphasizes the need for these models to be unbiased and provide consistent data.
Sharma also suggests that the focus should not be on individual use cases of AI, but on deploying it at a larger scale. He argues that the time has come to deploy GenAI at scale, and businesses need to move beyond discussing use cases and start talking about large-scale deployment.
Key takeaways:
Accenture is investing $3 billion over three years to expand its AI capabilities, with around 350 projects currently underway.
Manish Sharma, CEO of North America at Accenture, believes large language models like ChatGPT and Google Bard will impact 40% of working hours.
Sharma emphasizes the importance of ensuring AI models are unbiased, provide consistent data, and have explainable outputs.
He argues that businesses need to move beyond discussing AI use cases and focus on deploying AI at scale.
