Dell CTO John Roese predicts that companies will integrate generative AI into their business strategy by 2024. According to him, this comes with a number of pitfalls, including the cost and security of company data.
Generative AI is a hype with supporters and opponents, but is already being eagerly tested by many curious companies. John Roese, chief technology officer at Dell, predicts via The Register that many companies will be putting generative AI models into practice by 2024.
Cost and security
While most companies are now investing in training to master AI models, this will result in higher operational costs when actually applying AI. These costs include not only building an AI model, but also its operation. As a result, companies will only concentrate on a few promising projects, says John Roese.
One of the big challenges, according to Roese, is: Where will companies host these AI workloads? Ideally, the data for AI models is located here. This immediately brings us to an important aspect of data, namely its security. Roese not only takes into account the security of sensitive company data, but also the AI model itself. As soon as cyber attackers have access to a company’s AI model, they have the opportunity to extract information from it.
Profitable model?
Technology companies like Dell believe business customers will invest heavily in generative AI platforms. Roese emphasizes that companies have to make a good decision. Will the investment in the generative AI model be sufficiently profitable to reduce personnel and infrastructure costs and generate better business? This may result in some generative AI projects failing to launch due to insufficient ROI.
Zero trust model as a security lock
Ultimately, Roese predicts that by 2024, companies will move to a zero trust model for their entire infrastructure to combat cyberattacks. With Zero Trust, every user, device, or application is authenticated for every action. The move to an edge platform model is also on the rise to avoid a proliferation of different systems.