How we already rely on artificial intelligence

You may not realise it, but we all rely on artificial intelligence (AI) as we go about our normal daily lives. Let's take just one example: Keeping 1.7 billion journeys safeAI is used to protect the UK's rail passengers as they take 1.7 billion journeys (that's more than 66 billion passenger kilometres) every year. But before we even think about taking a train journey, AI is keeping us safe. Thales's Predict and Prevent technology uses a variety of sensors to monitor the real-time performance of more than 42,000 assets on thousands of kilometres of track, and at stations, platforms, signals, bridges, tunnels, crossings, cuttings, embankments and viaducts. Each component that is being monitored has a known profile – how much current it draws in normal use, for example, and the typical length of its operating life.