The state of generative AI: Our global survey of over 3,000 tech leaders

We are excited to announce the release of The Elastic Generative AI Report, which reveals the expectations and challenges of early generative AI implementation worldwide. The report, produced in collaboration with Vanson Bourne, compiles data points and industry insights of 3,200 decision-makers and influencers working in IT, analytics, and data across 10 countries.

We sought to understand how organizations are currently approaching generative AI, what challenges they’re facing, the strategies they’re using, and what opportunities they’ve identified. The survey included responses from the US, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, India, Australia, Spain, Netherlands, and Japan. 

Not surprisingly, the survey shows that generative AI is at the forefront of organizational plans to innovate, grow, and improve operational efficiencies. However, it also reveals deep concerns around the security and privacy of generative AI technologies, ensuring data quality to feed the models is available, the growing disparate AI regulation globally, and the need for more specialized in-house AI skills.

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With search powered AI, organizations can overcome many of the challenges they face with data silos. Pairing search with generative AI can result in high-quality search results that are accurate, current, relevant, and derived from real-time data. It also ensures results and information are presented with business context, in simple language for users and customers. The combination allows organizations to make sense of their data and ultimately make better-informed decisions. 

But many organizations lack the search capabilities to gather actionable insights effectively. Whether they struggle to use their search results or their current search engine is unable to cover multiple data sources, organizations are now eyeing a conversational search experience powered by generative AI and natural language processing. Almost half of respondents believe their organization could save at least two days per week per employee if they could conversationally search their organizational data.

Are organizations working toward a search powered AI solution? How are they overcoming the other challenges of adopting generative AI? Read the entire report, full of insights into how global organizations view generative AI, address security concerns, and adapt to new search and AI technologies. 

Download The Elastic Generative AI Report, and take the quiz to see where you are in your generative AI adoption journey.

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