The cancer-fighting, wildlife-protecting, life-saving power of artificial intelligence

"One of the near-term opportunities is driven by the sheer amount of aerial and satellite data that's starting to be produced around the world," Reid agrees. "There's a fantastic company out of Christchurch called Orbica, who are specialists in what they call GeoAI – analysing geospatial data and aerial and satellite photography to extract features and effectively count the number of houses or vehicles or identify bodies of water from the air. These are things that used to take people days of manual analysis and now it can be run through an algorithm in seconds.