As firms across the world look for game changing technologies to stay ahead of competition, artificial intelligence has been the most discussed, taking the number one spot, with an estimated 175,837 online articles about it between January and November 2021.
This according to a study by Walkme.com shows that 526 online articles are written about the technology in a day.
Walkme.com in a report sent to Insidebusiness.ng states that 16 technologies were reviewed, using reputable sources such as ‘ITProPortal’ and ‘Forbes’ to generate a seed list of the technologies which are set to transform the way people live and work in the next few years.
The 16 technologies considered by Walkme.com are artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, virtual reality (VR), quantum computing, cloud computing, robotic process automation (RPA), augmented reality (AR), 5G, digital twins, edge computing, smart contracts, 3D printing, 4D printing, nanotechnology, voice interfaces/chatbots and human augmentation.
The report shows that Machine learning is in second place with approximately 103,508 online articles published about the technology between January to November 2021.
In third place is virtual reality (VR), with an estimated 64,509 online articles written about the immersive technology from January to November 2021.
Augmented reality (34,632), quantum computing (32,548) and cloud computing (28,874) each had over 28,000 online articles centred around them between January to November 2021, respectively ranking fourth, fifth and sixth.
At the other end in tenth position is edge computing. The distributed computing paradigm tech had 7,433 online articles written about it from January to November 2021.
Rafael Sweary, President and Co-Founder of Walkme.com while commenting on the research notes the pervasiveness of AI, stating that it is no wonder it is one of the most discussed technologies today. He cited a widely discussed topic, the Great Resignation, which has an AI use-case tied to it.
“AI can help understand how humans interact with software and proactively recommend ways to improve the user experience, with actions that can be taken immediately. It’s a win for businesses, who can glean valuable data regarding technology usage and understand where the end-users are having issues. And it’s a win for the employee, who can quickly navigate the company’s tech stack, and not have to struggle with onboarding or training – especially remotely. Everything is done automatically, powered by AI and machine learning to extract data”, noted Sweary.
Walkme.com came to this point by taking note of emerging technologies which were all assessed in the Buzzsumo database to identify approximately how many online articles were published about them.The data range of January to November 2021 was used to represent the year of 2021 because November 2021 was the last available month for the latest data.O
Once the data for each analysed technology was collected, a ranking system organised the results from highest to lowest based on the number of online articles written about each technology. o
Walkme.com considered all naming and reference variations, e.g. ‘artificial intelligence’, AI’, ‘5G’, ‘5G network/5G communication’ and more to account for the different ways in which online articles are published.A
Additionally, to increase the reliability of results the names of the reviewed technologies were translated into 13 foreign languages which included: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Turkish, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Swedish, and Ukrainian – these languages were considered because they are among the most spoken/written languages in the world and the Buzzsumo database had the capabilities to accurately understand the translations for the listed foreign languages except languages such as Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Russian and Bengali because the Buzzsumo database did not have the capabilities to accurately assess their translations.
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