The World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other innovations as technologies with the greatest potential to positively impact the world in the next three to five years.
WEF disclosed the innovations in its yearly ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report, released yesterday.
MD of WEF/Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Jurgens, said technologies influence societies and economies. The report also spotlights technologies with immense potential for revolutionising connectivity, addressing the urgent challenges of climate change and driving innovation across various fields.
The 10 emerging technologies are AI for scientific discovery, privacy-enhancing technologies, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, high-altitude platform stations, and integrated sensing and communication.
Others are immersive technology for the built world, elastocalorics, carbon-capturing microbes, alternative livestock feeds and genomics for transplants.
“While AI has been used in research for many years, advances in deep learning, generative AI and foundation models are revolutionising scientific discovery. AI will enable researchers to make unprecedented connections and advancements in understanding diseases, proposing new materials, and enhancing knowledge of the human body and mind,” the report noted.
