This was the year AI moved from something “out there” to an urgent business consideration across many sectors. AI’s power to summarise large documents in the way companies need is still far from perfect, and deploying chatbots to provide services to customers is having mixed results, too. And as the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) pointed out this week, many of the big US companies leading the charge are big investors, employers and taxpayers here. But, like the advent of the internet, a big impact from AI in the years ahead is guaranteed. Learning by rote has little value any more in a world where AI can produce the same answer instantaneously.

Source: The Irish Times December 20, 2025 16:31 UTC