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AI's not the only hot tech trend - check out the year's other 11, according to McKinsey


AI, especially agents, are at the top of the list (unsurprisingly).

This encompasses agents, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, predictive algorithms, and other systems designed to detect patterns across datasets and autonomously refine their performance over time. Building robots capable of making decisions and taking action in a dynamic physical environment is much more complicated than training algorithms to detect patterns in text; that's why we have LLMs that can write essays but relatively few autonomous vehicles on the road today. For example, the report highlights "clean electrons," a phrase which refers to energy gleaned from sources that don't rely on the combustion of greenhouse gases — like solar power and hydropower, as well as the rise of electric vehicles from companies like Tesla and Rivian.

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