Rise of the Humans

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been much in the news with the defeat of Go champion Lee Sedol. In the past, some including Stephen Hawking and numerous Hollywood films have warned about the inexorable march of a potentially hostile Artificial Intelligence. Others fear the disruption to traditional jobs of these new technologies. And if you don't work in the tech industry, it's easy to get the impression that AI systems are just ticking things off the list one by one until we humans are all redundant. But human vs. machine competitions that capture our imaginations represent only a small slice of the amazing AI research that's occurring worldwide.