


Trough of Disillusionment: technology buyers become disillusioned at the pace of progress and limitations for immediate application.Peak of Inflated Expectations: market interest and news headlines herald a new era of computing, some use cases emerge but most buyers wait.Innovation Trigger: technology advances spark interest in new opportunities, but technology is still unproven.

Organizations looking to explore the boundaries of the Intelligent Enterprise should consider AI-assisted design, AI-augmented development, ontologies and graphs, small data, adaptive ML, self-supervised learning, generative AI, and generative adversarial networks.Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies suggests that key artificial intelligence (AI) categories such as virtual assistants, deep learning, machine learning and cognitive computing are at their “peak of inflated expectations.” The Hype Cycle is a conceptual model designed to depict new technologies in terms of market perception. AI algorithms will have a tremendous swath of applications in the coming years, influencing the enterprise 360-degrees. The wide world of AIĪrtificial intelligence (AI) is having a big 2020, being featured prominently in Gartner’s Hype Cycle in all its many forms including AI-augmented development, responsible AI, explainable AI, embedded AI, composite AI.

Some savvy retailers are already allowing users to create their own avatars on which to virtually try on clothes, but the report pointed out other data points that can be used to recreate a truly digital version of oneself, like biometric measurements of heart rate and glucose levels, but that the potential of the overall trend will be much bigger than that.Īnd it looks like integrations directly with the brain are not too far off, with 2-Way BMI (brain machine interface) allowing information and responses channeled directly from the brain to the machine, and vice versa. Not only can a digital representation of their appearance be generated nowadays, but more and more interaction-based activations using gesture, the voice, or the eye are making their way in, beyond just verifying IDs but enabling a variety of functionality. Social distancing tech and ‘health passports’ like India’s Aarogya Setu app, are just some of the ways that humans can represent themselves in the digital sphere nowadays. Here are just three of the more notable trends from Gartner’s Hype Cycle. While things like health passports and social distancing technologies are making an impact in the shorter term, it’s Gartner’s longer term trends that are truly exciting, whether just ‘hype’ or carrying some real substance. So-called social distancing technologies were identified as one of the top new tech trends for 2020, among other emerging trends that will drive innovation over the next ten years, according to analyst firm Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2020 report.Īs with nearly all aspects of life this year, many of the emerging tech trends for 2020 revolved around adapting to the ‘New Normal’, whether that’s facilitating better, more productive remote working or staying safe within the office. But what are some of the other tech trends for 2020 that will drive innovation and competitive advantage over the next decade?.Social distancing, ‘health passports’ and other new-age tech suited for a distributed workforce emerged in 2020.
