Databricks CEO: Most organizations are “frustrated” with AI reality

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told Fortune Brainstorm AI that organizations are “frustrated” with the realities of the “AI revolution.”

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00:00The data architecture inside most organizations is an absolute mess because they've been buying

00:04software for the last 30, 40 years from different vendors and just piled it on. A lot of the data

00:09is siloed on-premises. In data centers still, it's not in the cloud. And then in the cloud,

00:13it's in different clouds. So just getting their ducks in a row there is also problematic. So

00:18most organizations are frustrated. I think there's a big gap between the CEO and the leadership and

00:23the board who's saying, let's go, go, go, go. Why are we like AI revolution is already here?

00:27And then the reality on the ground, which is like, well, give me another year and give me more

00:31headcount. And I need to spend way more to even get there. So that's what we have to resolve. And

00:34there are ways to actually solve this. One of the things I like to say is I think the process change

00:39management with humans is actually the biggest problem, not the tech. So I think the biggest

00:42issue right now is that now inside of the organizations, there's many people who say,

00:46no, I should lead data and AI strategy for this company. Those guys over there, they don't

00:50understand anything. So there's this tussle between different people who are fighting over

00:55becoming that AI person. And that's also making things worse. So my advice to leaders there

01:00is, can you pick one person for your company? Don't have a three-headed monkey doing that.