This report is based on polls designed to help us understand the current sentiment of the business community toward emerging and established technologies.
2023 was a transformative year for artificial intelligence (AI). The results of the Q4 2023 sentiment polls reflect this, with 78% of respondents believing AI will disrupt their industry, either slightly or significantly. Furthermore, 56% of respondents said that the technology would live up to all its promises. The number of respondents who believe AI to be disruptive will remain high as the world’s leading tech companies roll out generative AI products in 2024.
Scope
Our sentiment polls ran between October and November 2023 on GlobalData's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 41 million unique visitors in 2023. In total, 1,508 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.