Augmented Reality is associated with the highest proportion of positive sentiment, reflecting users' rapidly growing enthusiasm for its capacity to transform industries, augment experiences, enable immersive environments, and facilitate superior communication across diverse sectors such as gaming, education, and healthcare.
Collective Intelligence is the next most positively-talked about topic, underlining the optimism surrounding the synergy of collective wisdom and knowledge. Enabled by technology, it is considered to foster innovative problem-solving, enhance collaboration, and support well-informed decision-making across various domains.
Robotics & Artificial Cognition is associated with the highest level of negativity (3 per cent), highlighting concerns about workforce disruption, ethical quandaries, and human interaction changes. Nevertheless, the potential benefits and innovations in manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics are acknowledged and appreciated.
Quantum Technologies are associated with the lowest proportion of positive sentiment and a high proportion of neutral outlook, reflecting cautious perspectives driven by growing apprehensions about security vulnerabilities, economic repercussions, and ethical constraints. Despite these concerns, the promise of solving complex computational challenges and advancing cryptography remains a focal point of interest.
Within the sentiment analysis cloud below each node represents one article and the linkages between dots show relations between topics in the analysed data.
Positive sentiment is centered around:
- The greatest positive sentiment in news, blogs and journals relates to augmented reality (AR) and the application of AI in healthcare. This reflects the excitement and promise of AR as a groundbreaking technology that has the potential to reshape industries and elevate user experiences to unprecedented levels, and the potential of AI to transform healthcare.
Neutral/mixed sentiment is centered around:
- While acknowledging AI’s productivity-enhancing capabilities and potential benefits in industries like banking, hospitality, tourism, and IT, scientists and experts also highlight concerns about limitations, disruptions to practices, privacy threats, biases, misuse, and misinformation.
Negative sentiment is centered around:
Negative sentiment with relation to Advanced AI and Quantum Revolution is predominantly associated with the risks of AI. These include the military applications of AI, such as faster decision-making and autonomous weapons; the risks to society and humanity posed by autonomous AI tools beyond human control, and the potential of AI systems to manipulate and deceive humans, the ability of AI bots to spread misinformation and manipulate social media platforms, for example.
Besides AI, negative sentiment is also associated with how quantum technologies may lead to a digital divide, where only certain organisations or countries with adequate resources can harness the power of quantum technology, exacerbating existing socio-economic disparities.