Before diving into global investment trends in Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Machine Learning ("ML"), it may be worth quickly defining them. To quote John McCarthy, widely recognized as one of the pre-imminent leaders in this space, AI is defined as "The science and engineering of making intelligent machines." AI systems can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. Machine Learning is a subset of AI. The main characteristic that separates Machine Learning from most AI is its ability to modify itself when exposed to more data; i.e.