Security News > 2023 > July > Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2023 and Beyond

Generative AI. Forrester defines generative AI as a set of technologies and techniques that leverage massive amounts of data to generate new content such as text, video, images, audio and code in response to natural language prompts or other noncode and nontraditional inputs.

Forrester Vice President of Emerging Technologies Brian Hopkins explained that, compared to intelligent agents, with AWAs, " we're seeing [a] blending of RPA and digital process tools" and the ability " to create a software agent that is capable of learning as it goes and answering more complex queries and acting in a non-deterministic way.

Forrester predicts it will be five years or more until extended reality delivers its expected value.

Forrester predicts it will be five years or more until zero-trust edge delivers its expected value.

He also noted that emerging technologies have a tendency to change, pointing out that last year everyone was hyperfocused on the metaverse and, this year, that focus is on generative AI. "You've got to think next year, it might be something else," Hopkins said.

"We're right in the middle of what Forrester has called, over many years, the acceleration, the framework for being future fit; being able to deal with the pace of change. The more prepared you are for that, the better off you're going to be in the future."

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