Artificial intelligence and cloud computing: the future for scientific research – Physics World

The buzz surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) is hard to ignore. Huge data sets and large amounts of compute are the perfect match for deep learning, wowing us with algorithms that have beaten grandmasters at games of chess and Go. Today, with access to no more than a web browser, the benefits enabled by breakthroughs in image and speech recognition – not to mention machine translation and more – are just a few clicks away. There's the growth of the cloud to consider too. We're depositing more and more of our data on virtual drives that make it easier to share, back-up and transfer information – providing us with new opportunities both in the office and at home.