Future Decoded: AI-powered data revolutionises software development

The second day of Microsoft's annual Future Decoded conference in London kicked off with a keynote presentation discussing how data growth is becoming the new Moore's Law. Through Moore's Law, the technology industry has seen exponential growth in computing power, with processor performance doubling every 18 months to two years. But now, according to Microsoft, data is driving a new approach to software development, where data is doubling every two years and advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to exploit this data. Chris Bishop, technical lead at Microsoft Labs in Cambridge, said: "Moore's Law has driven the digital revolution. I believe there is a revolution in the way we create software. In the last decade, we have handcrafted software to achieve the desired outcome. With AI, there is a radically different approach – we tell the computer how to learn."