Japan has a strong history in artificial intelligence (AI), dating back to the 1960s. As far back as 1967, Shun’ichi Amari proposed a way to enable neural networks to self-adjust the way that they categorise patterns through repeated training examples. This was one element that led to backpropogation, a key development in AI. Geoffrey Hinton,…
India is the most populous country in the world, with well over 1.4 billion people, slightly more than China. With its economy at over $4 trillion and growing at 6.5%, it is the fourth largest economy in the world (after the US, China and Germany, having overtaken Japan) and is on course to be the…
From the invention of gunpowder to the machine gun and tank, the military has always been an early adopter of the latest technological innovations. Computing has had a major impact on warfare ever since Alan Turing’s Bombe machine was used to crack the German Enigma cyphers in World War II. The driverless taxis from Waymo…
As well as impacting many different industries, AI has the potential to be used in various areas of the public sector. In the UK, for example, 18% of all jobs are in the public sector, and the proportion is large in other countries too – 16% in the USA, 20% in France, 29% in Sweden.…
There are very few aspects of life that artificial intelligence (AI) is not embedding itself into, and the sports industry is no exception. There are many different use cases appearing, from athlete training to sports analysis, through to television coverage. When the marathon runner Tola Tamirat crossed the finish line in the 2024 Paris Olympics,…
The mining industry may not be the first that we think about when it comes to cutting-edge technology, unless it is the edge of a drilling rig. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is having an impact on mining just as it is having on more obviously high-tech industries like life sciences. It is a trillion-dollar industry…
The wine industry favours tradition. The first traces of wine production were near Tbilisi in Georgia, around 6,000 BCE, but over the centuries, the industry has adapted to technological advances. The glass bottle was uncommon until the 17th century, though the first ever glass bottle dates back to Roman times. The wine industry is worth…
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…
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…