Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of discussion and research for decades. However, it is only in recent years that we have seen significant advancements in this field. AI is now being used in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and transportation, to name a few. With these advancements and applications, it is clear that AI is here to stay and will shape the future in various ways. So, what does the future of AI look like?

Google has been quietly hard at work for some time now, developing its artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities to do something new. And at the Google's Cloud Next conference in March the company announced that it was developing tech to aid machine learning for enterprise business. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, said the company had invested $30 billion into the Google Cloud Platform in order to develop its analysis and artificial intelligence capabilities for the program. The move, he said, was an effort to get into the game of big data, information Schmidt said nations would fight for. The tech giant is looking to upend its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft, who currently take the lead in artificial intelligence among customers.

Google has been quietly hard at work for some time now, developing its artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities to do something new. And at the Google's Cloud Next conference in March the company announced that it was developing tech to aid machine learning for enterprise business. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, said the company had invested $30 billion into the Google Cloud Platform in order to develop its analysis and artificial intelligence capabilities for the program. The move, he said, was an effort to get into the game of big data, information Schmidt said nations would fight for. The tech giant is looking to upend its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft, who currently take the lead in artificial intelligence among customers.

Alan Turing Institute lends support to'Commission on Artificial Intelligence' published by the Science and Technology Committee. The establishment of an AI ethics board in the UK has taken a big step forward, with the Alan Turing Institute agreeing to work with the UK government to explore the ethics questions surrounding the development of artificial development. In a letter to the Science and Technology Committee, the Alan Turing Institute welcomed the Committee's recent Report on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and put itself forward as an institution prepared to take a leading role in taking AI forward. The letter to Committee chair Stephen Metcalfe was in response to a report published by the Committee on 12 October 2016, in which it recommended that a'standing Commission on Artificial Intelligence' be established at the Alan Turing Institute to examine the social, ethical and legal implications of recent and potential developments in AI. "Your Report recommends that a standing Commission on Artificial Intelligence be Should this recommendation be taken forward, we would very much welcome the opportunity to lead the creation of the Commission." MP Stephen Metcalfe returned support in kind, saying in response to the Institute's letter: "We welcome the Alan Turing Institute's support for our report on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and are pleased that, as the UK's new data science research institute, it is ready to lead the standing Commission on Artificial Intelligence that we recommended establishing" Debate surrounding the ethics concerned with AI has been gathering speed in recent times, with Melanie Mitchell recently telling CBR that the AI community is'not very well prepared' when it comes to the ethical issues that come with using AI in life-critical areas.