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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

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The company also prohibits staff from using ChatGPT to write letters to clients. When it comes to ChatGPT, the only utilization in my practice is the way we go about creating our marketing strategy on social media—getting ideas, generating scripts, seeing what it can provide us as inspiration for new content. The risk is too high.”

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CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor

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After all, one increasingly common adage is that generative AI will not replace humans but “humans who are using generative AI will replace humans who are not using generative AI,” as Teradyne CIO Shannon Gath said on a September episode of CIO Leadership Live. Jamie Holcombe, CIO of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is one.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

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The biggest challenge is finding talented team members at the market rate,” says Patrick Isaac, CTO at Accuro Solutions, adding that the current environment demands more intensive recruiting efforts. To broaden his IT marketing efforts, duFour leverages his leadership team as subject matter experts in the media. The net result?

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. Do they have a moat?

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

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Most recently, in June, it spent $650 million to buy Casetext, a 104-employee company that offers an AI assistant for legal professionals powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, the same large language model (LLM) behind ChatGPT. When the technology first started coming out, the team was mesmerized.

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For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target

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Plus, when you add in cloud-based gen AI tools like ChatGPT, the percentage of companies using gen AI in one form or another becomes nearly universal. And this doesn’t include the gen AI that’s now being embedded into platforms like Office 365, Google Docs, and Salesforce. We’re foundationally a technology company,” she says.