Tech Sentiment Polls Q2 2023 - Thematic Intelligence

Tech Sentiment Polls Q2 2023 - Thematic Intelligence

Summary

This report is based on polls designed to help us understand the current sentiment of the business community towards emerging and established technologies.

Key Highlights

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most talked-about technology in 2023. Following Open AI’s introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, advances in generative AI have fueled investment in AI-focused start-ups and driven AI initiatives across all sectors. Our poll results suggest confidence in AI is high, with 63% of respondents stating that the technology will live up to all its promises.

GlobalData’s TMT Predictions 2023 report predicted a metaverse winter in 2023. As a technology, it is overhyped and ill-defined. The poll results for Q2 2023 reflect this. Nearly half of respondents said they did not expect the metaverse to be disruptive. Additionally, 61% of respondents believe it is all hype and no substance, in line with Q1 2023 results (59%). The layoffs in the metaverse divisions of Meta, Microsoft, and Disney at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 suggest that the metaverse is a long way from becoming mainstream.

Scope

• Our sentiment polls ran between April and May 2023 on GlobalData's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 3.4 million unique visitors between April and May 2023. In total, 1,545 respondents participated in the survey.
• The survey focused on seven technologies: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cloud computing, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, the metaverse, and robotics.

Reasons to Buy

• This survey gives a unique insight into the views of the business community on emerging and established technologies. The responses reveal which technologies executives view as most disruptive, which they believe to be over-hyped, and how their opinion of them has changed over time.