The 2024 Gartner AI Hype Cycle
FutureCIO, Monday, August 12th, 2024
Chris Howard, Gartner's chief of research, explains the Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, saying that AI continues to be one of the most dominant topics Gartner covers.
"There's a trigger that happens, and people become interested in this technology; it reaches a Peak of Inflated Expectations and eventually comes off of that peak into the Tropic Disillusionment, where the work happens. Then, we might reach the plateau of productivity. And the AI Hype Cycle is how fast things are moving through it, partially because of the amount of investment that's been happening over the last year and a half, two years. Now, GenAI, as you're probably feeling, generative AI, is past the Peak of Inflated Expectations and starting to go into the trough," he explained.