AI accelerates: Dell’s 2024 forecast unveils tech integration triumph for business evolution

Dell Technologies predicts that by 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) will be the driving force behind the integration of other emerging technologies, including advanced hardware, edge devices and cybersecurity, all aimed at enhancing business transformation. The tech firm foresees a convergence of quantum computing and generative AI within the next five years.

John Roese, Dell Technologies’ Global Chief Technology Officer, shared this vision during an online roundtable discussion titled Visions: 2024 and Beyond.

“In 2024, we will see an AI era in which generative AI dialogue will move from theory to practice.”

He further explained that the transition will involve shifting from building training infrastructure towards inference infrastructure.

Inference is the utilisation of trained AI models to derive predictions, make decisions or generate outputs based on input data. By 2024, AI will have evolved from a theoretical concept to a practical tool, Roese predicts. One of the major concerns will be security, especially with the potential risk of data-trained model theft.

“Developing the security architecture around inference infrastructure will be a critical task next year.”

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Roese also pointed out two other significant shifts in AI integration. Firstly, the economic discussion around AI projects will shift from the cost of data training to the overall cost of operation. Secondly, enterprises will transition from a broad AI experimentation approach to a top-down strategic focus, prioritising a few generative AI projects that can truly transform their businesses.

Dell also anticipates an improvement in the enterprise generative AI supply chain and ecosystem by 2024, specifically in the semiconductor ecosystem, where a wider choice of graphic processing units will be available. The availability of both closed- and open-source models and tools to assist enterprises in implementing generative AI will also continue to grow, according to Roese.

He further stated that zero trust security will become a central discussion, moving from a conceptual stage to a reality. The zero trust approach ensures that all devices, people, applications and data are authenticated, allowing only authorised behaviour, while everything else is prohibited.

Roese also predicted that most AI usage will occur where data exists, and most data does not reside in data centres but in sensors, actuators, manufacturing environments and retail stores. Generative AI systems function within the realm of the probabilistic, assessing the degree of probability to deduce the correct answer.

While such predictions and probabilistic activities carried out via generative AI on a conventional computer are very inefficient, Roese said quantum computers excel at solving probabilistic and optimisation problems. Given the affinity between these forms of AI and quantum computing, he anticipates the AI and quantum ecosystems to become more intertwined in the near future.

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