Over 66% of IT heads see AI as an advantage, but only ~50% are ready to adopt it

AMD is a tech giant that ostensibly banks on the impending AI boom it predicts as on the way, coming in the wake of the precipitous wave of development that has occurred "over the last 6 months alone". Now, the OEM has released the results of a study designed to see if its potential business customers' perceptions of the technology and its potential line up with its own.

The Team Red-commissioned survey was conducted by Edelmann Data & Intelligence in May 2023, with 2,500 "IT decision makers" based in the US, UK, Japan, France and Germany as participants. The study resulted in findings that, while 97% of the group claimed to be familiar with AI, less of them had actually used its more popular and possibly commercial applications.

For example, 52% of the participants admitted to never having used a natural language-processing app, while 47% had never used AI-powered facial recognition and 36% had never used it for "process automation".

Nevertheless, 68% of the cohort reported the belief that AI "can help work models run more efficiently", and that 67% believed in its potential to improve "employee efficiency" in general. 70% thought that AI makes for improved "automated cybersecurity threat detection", although nearly the same proportion expressed concern that it would pose "a new type of risk" to corporate privacy.

Furthermore, 52% of the group admitted that their infrastructure has yet to adapt to "AI workloads", while 46% conceded that their companies are not prepared to adopt or adapt the tools required. Nevertheless, AMD asserts that just over 66% of "IT leaders" work for companies that are preparing to invest in AI implementation, and that those who do so later rather than sooner "may be leaving big opportunities on the table".

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