Artificial intelligence, real results

The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. In a world where 90% of the data ever generated has been created in the last two years, it's becoming increasingly clear we could do with a little help to make sense of it all. That's where artificial intelligence comes in, with its ability to recognise patterns in data and make insightful predictions based upon them. With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being generated each day it's a technology that's both essential and potentially revolutionary. Volumes of data of that size are hard to comprehend and, if dealing with the data was left to us alone, would be even harder to draw value from.