Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing major industries in our expert blog series. Explore real-world AI use cases in healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing, education, insurance, logistics, agriculture, and more. Learn how industry leaders leverage AI for automation, predictive analytics, customer experiences, risk management, and efficiency, with actionable insights and examples for every sector.
The pharmaceutical industry was worth $1.6 trillion in 2024, employing around 8 million people directly and up to 75 million people indirectly. Various flavours of artificial intelligence show considerable promise in these industries. AI can be utilised in various applications, including research and drug discovery, clinical trials, operations such as manufacturing, and for other purposes,…
Financial services make up at least a fifth of the entire global economy. It has always been a heavy user of technology, investing at least triple as much in technology as the retail sector or manufacturing. Given this, it is unsurprising that financial services have also been early adopters of artificial intelligence (AI). It is…
Those of us who live in the West tend to associate AI with the USA and Silicon Valley. The titans of the AI industry, from specialist software companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, to platform vendors like Microsoft and Google, to hardware companies like NVIDIA, are all headquartered in the USA. Most Western citizens have barely…
The retail industry has long been a heavy technology user, from the cash register to vending machines to the credit card and the advent of e-commerce. It employs around 500 million people across the world. It is no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into many aspects of retail, from customer service…
Self-driving cars have been a science fiction staple for years, featuring in movies like “Demolition Man” and “Total Recall”. Given that 1.2 million people a year die in accidents on the roads, it is hardly surprising that people have been trying to make this particular piece of fiction into reality for quite some time. The…
The first use of an unmanned aerial explosive device was when the Austrian army deployed hundreds of balloons carrying explosives in their siege of Venice, which was fighting for independence against Austria. That was in 1849. Technology has moved on since then, but the use of drones has been a military tactic for longer than…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on the creative arts. This does not just apply to books and articles, but also to artistic images, music and video. Large language models (LLMs), the underlying basis of generative AI, are capable of writing a poem, a song or an essay, and generating an image, cartoon…
The oil and gas industries are some of the largest in the world, with a market size of over $7 trillion. Just over half of that is exploration and production, the rest being refining and distribution. It employs over 12 million people, with a further 60 million employed indirectly by its suppliers. While an oil…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and life sciences has a long history. In 1971, the University of Pittsburgh developed a tool called INTERNIST-1. This used a database of disease profiles and algorithms to help with clinical decision-making, including interrelated diagnosis. It did well, and was later commercialised as a product called QMR. Further AI…