IDC FutureScape Figure

Figure: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence 2021 Top 10 Predictions

Executive Summary

IDC FutureScape Predictions

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Predictions: Impact on Technology Buyers

Prediction 1: By 2022, Over 60% of Consumer-Focused AI Decisioning Systems in Finance, Healthcare, Government, and Other Regulated Sectors Will Include Provisions to Explain Their Analysis and Decisions

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Prediction 2: By 2023, Rather than Continue to Move Away from the Voice Channel, Over 30% of Organizations Will Have Added AI Capability to Their Inbound Call Handling Environment

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Prediction 3: By 2024, 50% of Knowledge Workers Will Regularly Interact with Their Own AI-Enhanced Robot Assistant, Which Will Help Identify and Prioritize Tasks, Collect Information, and Automate Repetitive Work

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Prediction 4: By 2025, the Number of Data Analysts and Scientists to Adopt AutoML for the End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline from Data Preparation to Model Deployment Will Triple

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Prediction 5: By 2024, AIOps Will Become the New Normal for IT Operations, with at Least 50% of Large Enterprises Adopting AIOps Solutions for Automating Major IT System and Service Management Processes

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Prediction 6: By 2026, 20% of All AI Solutions Will Be Closer to AGI — Leveraging Neuro-Symbolic Techniques That Combine Deep Learning with Symbolic Methods to Create Robust Humanlike Decision Making

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Prediction 7: By 2022, at Least 65% of G2000 Companies Will Leverage AI Tools Such as NLP, ML, and DL Businesswide to Enable 60% of Use Cases Across Areas Such as CX, Security, Facilities, and Procurement

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Prediction 8: By 2024, Over 30% of G2000 Companies Will Run AI Workloads Distributed More Evenly from Core to Edge to Cloud and Will Be Managed by AI Software Platform Providers, Making the Infrastructure "Invisible"

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Prediction 9: By 2023, 70% of Enterprises Will Run Varying Levels of Analytic and AI Models at the Edge, and 30% of Those Edge AI Applications Will Be Accelerated by Heterogeneous Accelerators

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Prediction 10: By 2023, 80% of G2000 Enterprises Will Invest in Internal Learning Platforms and Third-Party Training Services to Recapture Freed Employee Capacity and Address New Skill Needs Driven by AI Adoption

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Advice for Technology Buyers

External Drivers: Detail

Strategic Innovation — Shaping the Future Enterprise Today

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The Next Normal — Resilient Business and Operating Models

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Intelligence Everywhere — Data Drives Action

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Digital Platform — Ecosystems at Scale

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Crisis of Trust — Meeting Rising Expectations

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Customer Engagement Redefined — Safe, Secure, and Sustainable Digital Experience

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The Learning Organization — Asymmetrical Advantage

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