AI: powered by data - The data blog

Artificial Intelligence became a hot topic earlier this year when suddenly all the heads of big tech firms were voicing their opinions around it. A movie called Ex-Machina helped contribute to the debate around AI as it demonstrated how a robot could gain so much human intelligence that it was able to manipulate humans and escape from their control. Understandably it prompted both excitement and concern. Similarly the Matrix films portrayed humans as believing they exist while actually living in an artificial or simulated world. It is thanks to popular science fiction films that our understanding of AI has grown.