For example, Fetch AI, an AI and digital economics company, recently announced the appointment of Marcin Abram who them as a Machine Learning Scientist. Abram completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2016 and his doctoral research explored topics on coherence and emergent behaviour in quantum systems. Another key appointment was of Dr Sebastian Seung was by Samsung Electronics to bolster the AI R&D and bring a revolutionary business impact. An eminent computational neuroscientist, Dr Seung originally studied theoretical physics at Harvard. He has worked as a researcher at Bell Labs and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Fei Fang has saved lives. At MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference on Wednesday, Fang outlined recent work across academia that applies AI to protect critical national infrastructure, reduce homelessness, and even prevent suicides. Fang explained how a system she developed in 2013, while doing her PhD at the University of Southern California, is used every day to protect 60,000 passengers on the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. There are more ferries traveling between Staten Island and Manhattan than US Coast Guard patrol boats in the same territory. Previously, one patrol boat would follow one ferry for the whole journey, leaving the other ferries unprotected.