A centre piece event in London Tech Week, huge advances in technology across Artificial Intelligence were brought centre stage, underpinned by a celebration of knowledge sharing, networking, and breaking insights into technology trends. According to Omdia 2022, AI adoption is sitting at a 25% scaling on the diffusion of innovation curve but it was clear from this summit, especially announcements from Intel with whom I am honored to be an ambassador, that the trajectory, scale and scope of adoption is accelerating across multiple sector verticals. This includes rising relevance for FinTech, Insurtech, and eCommerce companies with the rapid acceleration in scrutiny regards how an individual's data is used. As a judge for the AI Journal Awards, I was especially impressed with the focus on student outreach, with a superb Hackathon showcasing youth talent in AI and Data Science alongside John Lewis & Partners sharing about their innovative apprentice program for AI and Machine learning – brilliant activities! It was also excellent to see the attention afforded to issues and risks around privacy, especially with the imminent demise of third-party cookies, plus AI ethics and the potential for inherent model bias.

It is been so long since Harvard Business Review declared data science to be the sexiest job in 2012. Unfortunately, if we look back at how data scientist role is performing in the technology sector, it is more like the profession is slowly dying. Experts too think that the world is overrating data science professions throwing data at off-the-shelf algorithms. If we consider the'best jobs' ranking from 2017 to 2019, we see the data scientist role being dramatically losing its place. Data science played similar to'business analyst' position in the 2010s.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is clearly a growing force in the business sector. Recently, AI has broken the wrong perspective of many executives and business owners that it is applicable just to big companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. It is serving every corner possible when it comes to showing its potential. AI is taking centre stage across a wide variety of industries, including retail and manufacturing. New products are being embedded with virtual assistants, while chatbots are answering customer questions on everything from online office supplier's site to web hosting service provider's support page.

Artificial intelligence will take over from humans and force us to abandon our anthropocentric view of the world, curator and brand consultant Suzanne Livingston said at the Dezeen Day conference this week. "We will no longer be centre stage," Livingston said during a panel discussion on the future of cities. Humans will have to accept being "surrounded by a diversity of intelligence," she added. According to Livingston, who curated the AI: More than Human exhibition at the Barbican Centre this summer, this will be difficult for people living in western countries to accept, as they are used to an anthropocentric view of the world. "In the west we will find this difficult," she explained. "We have a model of the self that is top down, in control, autonomous, rational and the highest form of evolutionary life."

Matthew Low is the Co-Founder & CMO of AiChat, a conversational AI company that provides a platform designed for brands to help them easily manage chatbots and automate business processes in customer service, sales and marketing on popular messaging apps. This interview has been featured in the Conversational AI Initiative 2019. I have been in digital marketing roles for 8 years, from in-house management to setting up my own agency which serviced prominent brands in F&B, automotive and retail. Currently, as co-founder at AiChat, I handle investor relations, marketing and sales. AiChat's birth was inspired by the pervasive impact of WeChat in China and how this super app replaced all other channels of interaction and transaction.

We are in a transitional period for video games: new console technology is right around the corner, but most of the industry's big players aren't quite ready to show their cards. Sony has removed itself and the PlayStation from this year's E3 conference, leaving Microsoft to take centre stage on the first day of this year's event. Microsoft announced the next Xbox console, Project Scarlett, albeit with maddeningly few details beyond rather abstract technical specifications. It will be on sale towards the end of 2020, and forms one half of Microsoft's video game strategy – the other half being a cloud-powered service that lets you play Xbox games anywhere, on any screen. Halo Infinite will be a Project Scarlett launch game – but will also be playable on Xbox One.

When watching a film, you may be the sort of person who immerses themselves in the story and special effects with a view to a couple of hours of escapism. Or, perhaps like me, you are the type who wants to work out what is real and what is computer generated imagery (CGI) and how realistic it really is. Either way, filmmakers continue to push the boundaries to improve the quality and variety of the special effects they deliver with the purpose of enhancing the audience experience and keep us coming back to the box-office. Films are now leaving the studio and the location shoot and moving in a steady stream towards the data center. The latest wave of technology seeing adoption includes areas such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which are all subcategories of artificial intelligence (AI).

Many retailers like Macy's, Tommy Hilfiger and Home Depot have evidently proven that Artificial Intelligence can be used for Visual recognition as it provides them with visual product searches.

For those of you mourning the end of'Planet Earth II', there's good news – a new animal documentary is set to hit our screens this week. Spy in the Wild is the BBC's latest documentary, in which cameras are concealed within lifelike robots, tracking how animals interact with them in the wild. In the first episode, a group of langur monkeys mistakes a robot as one of its own, and even goes into a state of grief when the robot is mistakenly dropped from a height. At first sight they look exactly like the real thing – cute, cuddly and in some cases terrifying creatures of the wild. It's only when you take a closer look that you realise the stars of BBC1's brilliant new wildlife series Spy In The Wild are nothing of the sort.