AI has hardly been used in the Swiss tech industry to date
Published: Thursday, Jun 27th 2024, 09:20
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is not yet widespread in the Swiss tech industry. As a survey of around 200 companies shows, the use of AI in industry has barely gone beyond initial pilot tests.
This means that reality is lagging behind the hype surrounding AI, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) wrote in a press release on Thursday.
Half of the companies in the ETH Zurich survey responded that they had not yet considered the use of AI for production-related applications. A further fifth did not find the use of AI convincing enough to pursue the idea further. Ten percent are currently conducting pilot tests, while a further twelve percent are planning to do so. According to the survey, only a few companies are using AI on a larger scale.
However, companies say they have more ambitious plans for the future: 16 percent of the companies surveyed want to use AI on a large scale in the future.
Previous studies with different results
According to ETH Zurich, the results of the survey stand in contrast to other studies. These had suggested a much greater implementation of AI in the technology sector. The researchers justify this in the press release by stating that there may have been distortions in previous studies, as these were often written by providers of AI solutions.
ETH Zurich conducted the survey on the use of AI in collaboration with the industry umbrella organization Swissmem and Next Industries.
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