AI tops the listing of 2025 tech developments in IEEE survey
Synthetic intelligence is anticipated to be an important know-how within the coming 12 months—the second time in a row that AI has topped IEEE’s annual Influence of Know-how survey.
And which trade is anticipated to be most impacted by AI? Telecommunications.
Respondents within the IEEE survey on tech developments, which was performed in September of this 12 months amongst greater than 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT administrators, and different know-how leaders in Brazil, China, India, the U.Okay. and U.S., have been requested to decide on the highest three applied sciences that they anticipated to be an important in 2025.
Practically 60% selected AI (in its varied types akin to predictive, generative or natural-language), 26% selected cloud computing and 24% stated robotics.
Curiously, nonetheless, most respondents—a convincing 91%—indicated that 2025 can be considerably of a 12 months of reckoning for generative AI, with “public fascination and notion shift[ing] to a better understanding of and expectations for, what the know-how can and will do — when it comes to accuracy of outcomes, transparency round deepfakes and extra,” IEEE stated.
Whereas most survey respondents anticipated to see extra adoption of generative AI by their group, practically 20% indiciated that that they had confronted difficulties with genAI adoption and can be rethinking their method to the know-how.
Requested about which industries can be most impacted by AI, the best choice amongst survey respondents was telecommunications at 45%—a 4 % enhance from final 12 months’s survey. Banking and monetary companies, media and leisure and manufacturing have been among the many different high verticals anticipated to be most impacted by AI.
What are seen as the highest potential use circumstances in 2025 for AI? Actual-time cybersecurity makes use of led the choices (48% of respondents), adopted by instructional actions akin to custom-made studying and clever tutoring, and 35% noticed AI as getting used to speed up or help software program improvement.
The survey additionally requested about what expertise the human workforce wants in AI-related roles. The highest 4 survey responses have been software program improvement expertise, an understanding of AI moral practices, information evaluation expertise and information modeling/processing expertise.
The tech developments survey additionally discovered that together with AI, there’s widespread curiosity in creating and deploying human-like robots for duties akin to cleansing and deliveries. “In 2025, 37% of know-how leaders are contemplating implementing humanoid robots into operations whereas 35% count on to have implementation of humanoid robots began and 18% count on to have them absolutely carried out into operations,” IEEE stated.
Moreover, quantum computing is anticipated to be an essential rising know-how in 2025. IEEE famous that greater than a 3rd of respondents stated that they count on the combination and implementation of quantum computing in operations to be began by their corporations within the coming 12 months; one other third stated that quantum can be absolutely carried out in operations in 2025. Twenty-eight % extra stated that they have been contemplating it.
And searching past 2025, the IEEE survey respondents estimated that greater than 40% of companies can be deploying quantum computer systems within the subsequent three years.
