The prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in many a tech-driven aspect of our daily lives (everything from driving sustainable agriculture to powering a range of smartphone features) would not have been pronounced if not for the research that went into understanding AI abilities and harnessing them to enhance self-driving cars or mobile apps, to name a handful of use cases. These are powerful, yet functional roles that can be easily comprehended. What's perhaps more exciting is AI's growing potential in sourcing and producing new creations and ideas, from writing news articles to discovering new drugs -- in some cases, far quicker than teams of human scientists would have been able to do. New discoveries and understanding of AI capabilities are ever-evolving, much like the technology itself. Hence many national and private interests are charging ahead with AI research and development in a dizzying assortment of fields, from intelligent automation and robotics to AI-powered databases and systems of national importance.