Enough Training, Let's Get Down To The AI Supermarket

This decade has seen us move our notion and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) forward in dramatic terms. Fuelled by continual advances in computer processing and data analytics, the Machine Learning (ML) that goes to help create AI brains (often called'software agents') has been the subject of much debate in both technical and human cultural circles. As soon as we started to realize that AI and ML are actually going to change our world, we immediately wanted to know how, when, where and by how much. There has been widespread concern over which human jobs would be made redundant by AI; although that furore appears to be abating now that humans understand that AI will more likely take away the'grunt work' and help to create new higher-value jobs. Quite apart from the technical arguments (could hackers use quantum computing and AI to create a computing mega virus, for example), we have also concerned ourselves with the human cultural aspects of AI.