(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 23 - In 2024, 13.5% of EU companies with
10 or more employees used artificial intelligence technologies
for their business, an increase of 5.
Denmark (27.6%), Sweden (25.1%) and Belgium (24.7%) are the
countries with the highest percentages of companies with 10 or
more employees that use AI technologies.
At the bottom of the list are Romania (3.1%), Poland (5.9%) and
Bulgaria (6.5%).
Italy registers 8.2%, up three percentage points compared to the
5.05% recorded in 2023.
The data were released by Eurostat.
All EU countries recorded an increase in the share of
enterprises using AI technologies compared to 2023, with Sweden
recording the highest increase (14.7%), followed by Denmark
(+12.4%) and Belgium (+10.9%).
In contrast, modest increases were recorded in Portugal (+0.8%),
Romania (+1.6%) and Spain (+2.1%).
Information and communication is the sector where AI was used
the most in 2024 (48.72% of enterprises), followed by the
professional, scientific and technical services sector (with
30.53%).
In all other economic activities, the share of enterprises
adopting AI is below 16%.
The percentage ranges from 15.45% (real estate activities) to
6.09% (housing and construction).
In terms of the type of AI technology used by businesses, in
2024, written language analysis (text mining) was the most
widely used, adopted by 6.9% of businesses.
The second most widely used AI technology was the generation of
written or spoken language (natural language generation), used
by 5.4% of businesses (+3.3% compared to 2023).
This was followed by the conversion of spoken language into
machine-readable format (voice recognition), used by 4.8% of
businesses (+2.2%). (ANSA).
13.5% of EU companies use AI, up 5.5%
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