Thematic Intelligence: Tech Sentiment Polls Q2 2024

Thematic Intelligence: Tech Sentiment Polls Q2 2024

Summary

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

Key Highlights

• The hype around AI seems to be winding down. In Q2 2024, the number of respondents who believed AI would live up to all its promises fell below half for the first time in over a year. As more people interact with AI products, such as large language models (LLMs), they come face-to-face with the technology’s limitations.
• 73% of respondents believe cybersecurity is either already disrupting their industry or will do so in the next 12 months. No industry is exempt from cyberattacks. State-sponsored attacks are a real threat, and ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated.

• Our sentiment polls ran between April and June 2024 on GlobalData's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 10.3 million unique visitors in Q2 2024. In total, 1,426 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.

• 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.