Taking the time to make a use case for AI will propel companies further and improve the return on investment in this fast-changing technology. The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like "bubble" to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers. In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on was that 95% of all AI pilots failed to scale or deliver clear and measurable ROI. McKinsey earlier published a similar trend indicating that agentic AI would be the way forward to achieve huge operational benefits for enterprises. At's Technology Council Summit, AI technology leaders recommended CIOs stop worrying about AI's return on investment because measuring gains is difficult and if they were to try, the measurements would be wrong. This places technology leaders in a precarious position-robust tech stacks already sustain their business operations, so what is the upside to introducing new technology?

Artificial intelligence (AI) models that are built on consumer data must also be built with data privacy in mind. It is understandable that some users are hesitant of automated systems that collect and use their data, so to remain viable, AI models must incorporate privacy protection into their design as a matter of course. Usage of AI has grown in recent years and is now present in some form across most industries. Using simple machine learning models, it is possible to automate tedious and repeatable processes such as data validation using text, images and tabular data. In addition to standard regression and classification problems using simple models, deep learning is becoming more prominent.

Technology leaders can help businesses prepare for major market changes through talent, project, and governance strategies. Customer experience, employee retention, and even revenue success will depend on how CIOs use the variety of AI tools at their disposal. As technology develops, AI will increasingly be used to create various essential components of work. This long-term trend is being supported by IT leaders. The fact is that each team and department performs routine, rule-based tasks on a daily basis, including processing transactions, balancing records, gathering and entering data, and many others. These administrative tasks are tedious and boring.

Geopolitical tensions and pandemic-related disruptions have revealed deep vulnerabilities within the supply chain for manufacturers as well as the businesses and governments that rely on them. In particular, the well-documented global shortage of semiconductors, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other essential electronic components have limited the production of everything from automobiles to medical devices and critical infrastructure. To mitigate risk, manufacturers are exploring ways to increase the efficiencies by which such components are produced. In parallel, recent legislation such as the CHIPS Act has endeavored to boost domestic semiconductor research and manufacturing. Although most of the commentary is focused on semiconductors, the CHIPS Act also applies to PCBs and complements industry standards such as IPC-1791 to combat poor quality and counterfeit components.

Our world in the year 2030 may still be miles away from looking like a futuristic set-up, but it will still have enhanced technologies that look like they came out of the realms of science fiction. These developments are also becoming more ubiquitous, with innovators developing Web 3.0 applications using blockchain technologies – meeting the demand of more people wanting greater data ownership through non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies, as well as the metaverse. Of these developments, the metaverse is the one to watch. Its concept encompasses a fully-immersive, hyper-realistic virtual world that caters to all senses, bridging communities and societies that are physically separated, harnessing collaborations and coming together to have a collective experience in the same digital space. However, this does not stop with just the idea of exploring one common metaverse.

One in four global technology leaders believe up to 75 per cent of jobs across the global economy will be augmented by AI-driven software in 2023, and the vast majority of tech bosses are also planning to make moves in the Metaverse next year. These results were uncovered in The Impact of Technology in 2023 and Beyond: an IEEE Global Study a survey which questioned 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors and other technology leaders in the US, UK, China, India and Brazil. Respondents worked at organisations with over 1,000 employees in multiple industry sectors including banking and financial services, consumer goods, education, electronics, engineering, energy, government, healthcare, insurance, retail, technology and telecommunications. The study covered the most important technologies in 2023 and future technology trends. Global technology leaders surveyed said cloud computing (selected by 40 per cent), 5G (38 per cent), Metaverse (37 per cent), electric vehicles (35 per cent), and the Industrial Internet of Things (33 per cent) will be the most important areas of technology next year.

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! As technology progresses, business leaders understand the need to adopt enterprise solutions leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, there's understandable hesitancy due to implications around the ethics of this technology -- is AI inherently biased, racist, or sexist? And what impact could this have on my business?

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Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Fifty-three percent of enterprise technology leaders are worried they will run out of computing power in the next decade -- one of several challenges hindering organizations as they look to scale up artificial intelligence initiatives, according to a new report by SambaNova Systems. With AI and ML becoming ubiquitous across industries, it has the same potential to refactor the Fortune 500 as the internet has had over the past several decades. But as the AI revolution accelerates, there's a burgeoning gulf between the haves and the have-nots. That is, a growing number of top companies have figured out how to deploy AI initiatives at scale, gaining a competitive edge against businesses that have yet to do so.

Ethical artificial intelligence (AI) focuses on values, principles, and techniques that promote moral conduct and regulatory framework, which benefit humanity as a whole. It also prevents the malicious use of AI technology in deepening inequalities and divides. A roadmap to trusting artificial intelligence (AI) is important. Lack of trust is why many companies have not adopted AI into their business frameworks. The fear of the unknown runs deep – just as I felt on Vatnajökull – and the unknown behind technology is oftentimes immense, teeming with frightening possibilities.