CIOs Feel Heat From CEOs on Generative AI
The rise of generative AI within companies often starts at the top with chief executives, making it different from other business tech booms typically led by technologists. Given the active role of CEOs, generative AI pilots stand to get ample resources, but the pressure to meet expectations creates a unique challenge, according to chief information officers, the executives who bridge business and technology leadership.
“I think we’re all looking for some proof of concept that we can go after fairly quickly to prove to ourselves that there is real impact. There is a certain degree of urgency because we don’t want to be left behind," said Warren Kudman, senior vice president and CIO of Turner Construction.
“I think it still needs to be proven out, even with all the excitement around it." “I hope this is where the technology leaders are, hopefully bringing some pragmatism to the opportunity, because we’re the ones that think about the risk and the economics of making it all work," Kudman added, speaking on the sidelines of The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network Summit in New York. The event focused on the explosive interest in generative artificial intelligence that began last November with the release of ChatGPT, which made it easy to interact with OpenAI’s underlying technology by typing questions or prompts in everyday language.
Similarly, OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 creates realistic-looking images. Such models are trained on the internet as well as on more tailored data sets to find long-range patterns in sequences of data, enabling AI software to express a fitting next word or paragraph as it writes or creates.
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