Creativity and regulation needed for artificial intelligence

The'artificially intelligent' future needs regulation and human creativity, according to tech pioneer Inma Martinez, who will speak at the Inspirefest Salon in London this week. The computers are taking over! With headlines declaring that supercomputers can now beat expert humans in complex strategic games and can even chug through the medical literature to diagnose disease, it's easy to believe we are on the cusp of science-fiction becoming fact as artificial intelligence gets a mind of its own. But for technology pioneer and data scientist Inma Martinez, the precipitous rise of fast and flashy artificial intelligence (AI) comes as no surprise. We are now'almost vertical' in the exponential growth in AI technology, and she stresses the need to regulate the AI industry, but reassures that as the computers get even'smarter' we will still need human creativity.