Uncertainty and lack of preparedness holds back enterprise adoption of AI


IT leaders say AI solutions will allow them to accomplish more tasks in a day (78 percent) or improve their work-life balance (70 percent).
But despite this a survey of 2,500 global IT leaders from chip maker AMD finds nearly half (46 percent) say their organization isn't ready to implement AI. Just 19 percent say their organization will prioritize AI within the next year, while 44 percent forecast a five-year timeline.
Intel teams up with Accenture to launch 34 open-source AI reference kits


In a powerful collaboration with Accenture, Intel has rolled out an impressive collection of 34 open-source AI reference kits. These kits are potential game-changers, aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process of deploying AI for data scientists and developers.
Think about it, dear readers -- every kit is a treasure chest of AI tools. Inside, you'll find model code, training data, instructions for setting up the machine learning pipeline, libraries, and oneAPI components. All of these are designed to optimize AI and make it more accessible, regardless of whether you're working in an on-premises, cloud, or edge environment.