AI tops the checklist of 2025 tech traits in IEEE survey
Synthetic intelligence is anticipated to be crucial know-how within the coming 12 months—the second time in a row that AI has topped IEEE’s annual Impression of Expertise survey.
And which business is anticipated to be most impacted by AI? Telecommunications.
Respondents within the IEEE survey on tech traits, which was carried out 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., had been requested to decide on the highest three applied sciences that they anticipated to be crucial in 2025.
Practically 60% selected AI (in its numerous varieties equivalent to predictive, generative or natural-language), 26% selected cloud computing and 24% mentioned robotics.
Apparently, nevertheless, most respondents—a powerful 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 — by way of accuracy of outcomes, transparency round deepfakes and extra,” IEEE mentioned.
Whereas most survey respondents anticipated to see extra adoption of generative AI by their group, practically 20% indiciated that they’d confronted difficulties with genAI adoption and could be rethinking their strategy to the know-how.
Requested about which industries could be most impacted by AI, the best choice amongst survey respondents was telecommunications at 45%—a 4 p.c improve from final 12 months’s survey. Banking and monetary providers, media and leisure and manufacturing had been among the many different high verticals anticipated to be most impacted by AI.
What are seen as the highest potential use instances in 2025 for AI? Actual-time cybersecurity makes use of led the choices (48% of respondents), adopted by instructional actions equivalent to custom-made studying and clever tutoring, and 35% noticed AI as getting used to speed up or help software program growth.
The survey additionally requested about what expertise the human workforce wants in AI-related roles. The highest 4 survey responses had been software program growth expertise, an understanding of AI moral practices, knowledge evaluation expertise and knowledge modeling/processing expertise.
The tech traits survey additionally discovered that together with AI, there’s widespread curiosity in creating and deploying human-like robots for duties equivalent to cleansing and deliveries. “In 2025, 37% of know-how leaders are contemplating implementing humanoid robots into operations whereas 35% anticipate to have implementation of humanoid robots began and 18% anticipate to have them absolutely applied into operations,” IEEE mentioned.
Moreover, quantum computing is anticipated to be an necessary rising know-how in 2025. IEEE famous that greater than a 3rd of respondents mentioned that they anticipate the combination and implementation of quantum computing in operations to be began by their corporations within the coming 12 months; one other third mentioned that quantum could be absolutely applied in operations in 2025. Twenty-eight p.c extra mentioned that they had been contemplating it.
And searching past 2025, the IEEE survey respondents estimated that greater than 40% of companies could be deploying quantum computer systems within the subsequent three years.