Accenture Ireland’s head of technology Austin Boyle said Irish businesses were seeing the value of AI as becomes increasingly “human”. Photograph: Shane O'Neill, Coalesce.
Almost 40 per cent said the technology would usher in transformational change for organisations, with almost all businesses 99 per cent of Irish executives agree thatsaying the technology would push their organisation to modernise its technology architecture, and that AI agents would collaborate with other such agents to carry out organisational tasks.
But while Irish companies have been making progress in the use of artificial intelligence and generative AI, they are slower to adopt other innovative technologies such as spatial computing, which mixes digital content with the physical world, and body sensing technologies. According to the survey, 84 per cent of Irish executives think spatial computing will be able to provide a realistic alternative or enhancement to in-person experiences, behind the global figure of 92 per cent.