Generative AI In Business: Why Accenture Is Investing $3 Billion In AI

International technology consulting group Accenture has certainly been bitten hard by the generative AI bug. In coming years, it plans to double its headcount of data and AI experts from 40,000 to 80,000 as it invests $3 billion into its capabilities. Generative AI In Business: Why Accenture Is Investing $3 Billion In AI Adobe Stock All of this is in order to improve its ability to leverage AI in three ways: To do better work for clients, to improve its own operations, and to transform the way it works for clients. Recently, I caught up once again with Accenture’s Paul Daugherty. Five years after the publication of his book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI , I took the chance to ask him about the developments we’ve seen since its publication. We also talked about how the arrival of generative tools like ChatGPT will affect the ongoing AI-driven transformation of enterprises. Generative AI – the game changer “Over the course of my career,” says Daugherty, “I’ve been really amazed by technology four times.” The first was the Lisa – the early Apple computer that popularized the idea of a personal computer with a graphical user […]

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