AI adoption sees ‘massive shift,’ Accenture exec says

“While the adoption rate varies between businesses, a majority of them — 95% in a recent S&P Global report — consider AI to be important in their digital transformation efforts.
The global public cloud computing market is set to exceed $362 billion in 2022, according to Statista, and IDG reports that the average cloud budget is up from $1.62 million in 2016 to a whopping $2.2 million today.
McKinsey predicts that automation alone could raise productivity growth globally by 0.8% to 1.4% annually.”