When it comes to disruptive technologies, nothing is more on trend right now than Artificial Intelligence or AI as it's commonly known because it's one of those technologies that we know will impact business, economic and social models as well as our own personal lives. AI is just one part of the larger field of Data Science, where at its simplest, is the art of'extracting value or business insights from data'. While Artificial Intelligence is a term first coined by John McCarthy in 1956, the concept of computers performing cognitive functions to mirror those of humans is around for decades. English mathematician Alan Turing's paper'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' published in 1950 posed the question'can machines think?' and introduced the'Turing test', a model for measuring intelligence. Called'the Imitation Game', it gave notion to the idea of machines being able to move beyond just logical thinking and into the realm of cognitive thinking using skills like learning, reasoning, remembering, understanding and deduction/inference.