I hope everyone is enjoying the latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as I am. In one of the latest AI developments, a new computer programme - DALL-E 2 - generates images from a text prompt. Give it the phrase "Club Penguin Bin Laden", and it will go off and draw Osama as a cartoon penguin. For some, this was more than a bit of fun: it was further evidence that we shall soon be ruled by machines. Sam Altman, chief executive of the now for-profit Open AI company which provides the model that underpins DALL-E, suggested that a generalised intelligence (AGI) was close at hand.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a part of everyday conversation and our lives. It is considered as the new electricity that is revolutionizing the world. AI is heavily invested in both industry and academy. However, there is also a lot of hype in the current AI debate. AI based on so-called deep learning has achieved impressive results in many problems, but its limits are already visible. AI has been under research since the 1940s, and the industry has seen many ups and downs due to over-expectations and related disappointments that have followed. The purpose of this book is to give a realistic picture of AI, its history, its potential and limitations. We believe that AI is a helper, not a ruler of humans. We begin by describing what AI is and how it has evolved over the decades. After fundamentals, we explain the importance of massive data for the current mainstream of artificial intelligence. The most common representations for AI, methods, and machine learning are covered. In addition, the main application areas are introduced. Computer vision has been central to the development of AI. The book provides a general introduction to computer vision, and includes an exposure to the results and applications of our own research. Emotions are central to human intelligence, but little use has been made in AI. We present the basics of emotional intelligence and our own research on the topic. We discuss super-intelligence that transcends human understanding, explaining why such achievement seems impossible on the basis of present knowledge,and how AI could be improved. Finally, a summary is made of the current state of AI and what to do in the future. In the appendix, we look at the development of AI education, especially from the perspective of contents at our own university.

In the year we celebrate America's moon landing from 50 years ago, we are reminded that aiming high and thinking big have led to feats that once seemed impossible. But there were many exploded rockets on the launchpad before our astronauts set foot on the moon. That's why both the hype and the disappointment around artificial intelligence (AI) in health care don't bother me. Although IBM Watson Health did not meet expectations for its "moonshot" goal to tame cancer with AI, there's reason to be optimistic. Incremental progress for health care AI may not astonish, but it is nonetheless very promising.

As of November last year, Microsoft though had filed 697 AI patents identified as important due to their'significant competitive advantage'. Out of the top 30 companies listed in the research, Microsoft filed 20% of all patents and is ranked number 1. Microsoft's approach to AI is rigorous and has a long history.

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