The leap in AI development has been called a revolution, a paradigm shift, and an invention as transformative as the steam engine and the internet. The 2025 IEEE global study called artificial intelligence the most important current technology based on a survey of 350 tech leaders. AI powers automated vehicle damage appraisal, developer productivity tools, and even logo makers.
These are just a few ways AI has already transformed how we interact with the world and the technology we use for work and leisure. That said, however, the AI boom brought a not-so-insignificant amount of hype and speculation. Will AI really lead to massive job displacement? Will AI take junior developers’ jobs?
We sat down with experts from S-PRO, an AI developer with over a decade of experience, to discuss how AI shapes the future of technology – and separate the truth from fiction.
AI Coding Tools Streamline Software Development
Will AI replace software developers? Despite what Meta’s CEO may say, that’s unlikely, as advanced as generative AI may seem at producing code snippets today. That said, the consensus seems to be that generative AI assistants can make developers more productive and efficient, so companies will need fewer developers on the team to complete the project.
AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot can already be integrated with IDEs today, allowing developers to use generative AI to:
- Complete in-line code
- Generate unit tests
- Document or explain the existing codebase
- Convert code into a new language
- Identify errors in the code
- Provide refactoring and debugging suggestions
Software development is becoming faster and more efficient, reducing both development costs and speeding up time-to-market. So, AI use in software development is likely to accelerate tech innovation across industries.
AI-Powered Interfaces Are Taking Off
At the 2025 CES, there was no shortage of vendors showing off gadgets and devices packed with AI features. But that’s hardly new: the previous year’s CES was also full of AI wearables. Add that to the successes like Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and you can see how AI is poised to transform human-machine interfaces (HMIs).
Of course, AI-powered HMIs are hardly new. Smart speakers like Alexa and voice assistants like Siri already use AI to process natural language input and generate responses.
Advances in generative AI chatbots, however, can change how we interact with applications and operating systems. Instead of clicking buttons and navigating menus, users could write a request for the chatbot, and the chatbot will take care of the rest.
Wells Fargo’s virtual assistant is a good example here. It can pay bills and provide transaction details for its users based on a single prompt.
Speeding Up Scientific Breakthroughs
Artificial intelligence has already been used to predict the 3D model of protein structures, discover new drugs, and help design quantum experiments. Besides complex predictive AI models running sophisticated simulations, AI-powered chatbots have also proven useful in summarizing thousands of pages of existing literature and brainstorming hypotheses and experiments.
That’s what makes AI a powerful tool to accelerate scientific discoveries in biology, neuroscience, chemistry, and physics, among others. Some of these discoveries, like advances in quantum computing, have the potential to upend the current standards of communication and cybersecurity and computational limitations.
Automating Previously Unautomatable Tasks
Five years ago, using an AI tool to generate an illustration for a blog post (or the blog post itself) was unthinkable. Today, it’s a mundane solution – at least, for some content creators.
Creative tasks like writing and design aren’t the only ones that can be fully or partially automated with AI today. In the workplace, AI productivity tools like AXA’s SecureGPT speed up certain tasks with advanced summarization, translation, text generation, and other capabilities. Or take Citibank: it leveraged generative AI to sift through 1,089 pages of new capital rules.
Final Thoughts
Artificial intelligence remains a rapidly evolving technology. So, it’s impossible to predict with 100% certainty which advances in AI will stick and transform how we interact with tech – and which ones will fade into oblivion after the hype dies down.
That said, AI has already left a visible mark on a variety of fields, from software development to scientific discoveries. It is also changing how users interact with software products and how businesses use automation to increase operational efficiency.
Want to lead the way in today’s AI revolution? Reach out to S-PRO, a trusted IT consulting, AI/ML, and data science partner with 250+ world-class engineers on its team.