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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Drug Discovery Market by Component (Software, Service), Technology (ML, DL), Application (Neurodegenerative Diseases, Immuno-Oncology, CVD), End User (Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, CRO), Region - Global forecast to 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Artificial intelligence/AI in drug discovery Market is projected to reach USD 4.0 billion by 2027 from USD 0.6 billion in 2022, at a CAGR of 45.7% during the forecast period. The growth of this market is primarily driven by factors such as the need to control drug discovery & development costs and reduce the overall time taken in this process, the rising adoption of cloud-based applications and services. On the other hand, the inadequate availability of skilled labor is key factor restraining the market growth at certain extent over the forecast period.

Services segment is estimated to hold the major share in 2022 and also expected to grow at the highest over the forecast period

On the basis of offering, the AI in drug discovery market is bifurcated into software and services. the services segment expected to account for the largest market share of the global AI in drug discovery services market in 2022, and expected to grow fastest CAGR during the forecast period. The advantages and benefits associated with these services and the strong demand for AI services among end users are the key factors for the growth of this segment.

Machine learning technology segment accounted for the largest share of the global AI in drug discovery market

On the basis of technology, the AI in drug discovery market is segmented into machine learning and other technologies. The machine learning segment accounted for the largest share of the global market in 2021 and expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. High adoption of machine learning technology among CRO, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and capability of these technologies to extract insights from data sets, which helps accelerate the drug discovery process are some of the factors supporting the market growth of this segment.

Pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies segment expected to hold the largest share of the market in 2022

On the basis of end user, the AI in drug discovery market is divided into pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies, CROs, and research centers and academic & government institutes. In 2021, the pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies segment accounted for the largest share of the AI in drug discovery market. On the other hand, research centers and academic & government institutes are expected to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The strong demand for AI-based tools in making the entire drug discovery process more time and cost-efficient is the key growth factor of pharmaceutical and biotechnology end-user segment.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction

2 Research Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Premium Insights

4.1 Growing Need to Control Drug Discovery & Development Costs is a Key Factor Driving the Adoption of AI in Drug Discovery Solutions

4.2 Services Segment to Witness the Highest Growth During the Forecast Period

4.3 Deep Learning Segment Accounted for the Largest Market Share in 2021

4.4 North America is the Fastest-Growing Regional Market for AI in Drug Discovery

5 Market Overview

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Market Dynamics

5.2.1 Market Drivers

5.2.1.1 Growing Number of Cross-Industry Collaborations and Partnerships

5.2.1.2 Growing Need to Control Drug Discovery & Development Costs and Reduce Time Involved in Drug Development

5.2.1.3 Patent Expiry of Several Drugs

5.2.2 Market Restraints

5.2.2.1 Shortage of AI Workforce and Ambiguous Regulatory Guidelines for Medical Software

5.2.3 Market Opportunities

5.2.3.1 Growing Biotechnology Industry

5.2.3.2 Emerging Markets

5.2.3.3 Focus on Developing Human-Aware AI Systems

5.2.3.4 Growth in the Drugs and Biologics Market Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic

5.2.4 Market Challenges

5.2.4.1 Limited Availability of Data Sets

5.3 Value Chain Analysis

5.4 Porter's Five Forces Analysiss

5.5 Ecosystem

5.6 Technology Analysis

5.7 Pricing Analysis

5.8 Business Models

5.9 Regulations

5.10 Conferences and Webinars

5.11 Case Study Analysis

6 Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Market, by Offering

7 Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Market, by Technology

8 Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Market, by Application

9 Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Market, by End-user

10 Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Market, by Region

11 Competitive Landscape

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VistaPath, the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based, data-driven pathology processing platforms, today announced that it has secured $4 million in seed funding led by Moxxie Ventures with participation from NextGen Venture Partners and First Star Ventures. With this latest round, VistaPath will further advance its mission to modernize pathology labs, delivering faster, more accurate diagnoses that lead to optimal patient care.

"We're excited to be working with investors who share our desire to impact the lives and clinical outcomes of patients. This funding will support full-scale development and delivery of our innovative products, as well as the expansion of our operational and technical capabilitiesallowing us to better serve the clinical and life science markets," says Timothy Spong, CEO of VistaPath.

VistaPath's Sentinel is a first-of-its-kind pathology processing platform designed to seamlessly deliver a range of solutions for critical lab processes. The company's first application, released in 2021, is a tissue grossing platform that automates the process of receiving, assessing, and processing tissue samples. The platform uses a high-quality video system combined with AI to assess specimens and create a gross report 93% faster than human technicians with 43% more accuracy. Additional applications are slated to be released later this year.

"Pathology is the study of disease and connects every aspect of patient care. We believe that advances in computer vision and AI can bring great improvements to the pathology industry and ultimately lead to better outcomes for patients. We believe the team at VistaPath is building a best-in-class product for pathology labs and are proud to lead this investment round", says Alex Roetter, General Partner at Moxxie Ventures.

About VistaPath

VistaPath is modernizing pathology labs using computer vision and artificial intelligence. They provide clients with significant quality, workflow, and strategic benefits with the overall goal of delivering improved results for pathologists, clinicians, and patients. The Sentinel is the company's first product. Learn more at vistapathbio.com.

About Moxxie Ventures

Moxxie Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on backing exceptional founders who make life and work better. Moxxie is based in San Francisco, CA and Boulder, CO. Learn more at moxxie.vc.

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The ATLAS Experimental Flight Center in Spain has hosted the final phase of the SAFETERM (Safe Autonomous Flight Termination System) project, sponsored by the European Defense Agency and developed by technological companies GMV and AERTEC.

SAFETERM addresses the use of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies to increase the level of safety in specific emergency situations leading to flight termination.

AERTECs TARSIS 75 unmanned aerial system was used for the flight campaign, in which a prototype of the SAFETERM System was embarked for evaluation. These tests have attracted the interest of several dozen professionals and heads of agencies and organizations throughout Europe.

The ATLAS Experimental Flight Center in Jan, Spain has hosted the final phase of SAFETERM (Safe Autonomous Flight Termination System), a project sponsored by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and developed by technology companies GMV and AERTEC.

Unmanned aerial systems are in full expansion and development phase, with safety in all flight phases and its integration in the airspace being a priority issue. The objective of the SAFETERM project is to improve current medium-altitude, long-duration (MALE) RPAS flight termination systems and procedures by applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies to increase the level of safety in specific emergency situations, in case of failure of both the autonomy and the ability to control the remote pilot.

The system aims to provide tools to enable aircraft to autonomously determine Alternative Flight Termination Areas (AFTA) where the risk to third parties can be minimized. In the event of a loss of communication with the aircraft and the subsequent identification of an emergency that prevents reaching planned Flight Termination Areas, the aircraft quickly identifies a safe area to land, avoiding buildings, roads or inhabited areas.

Final flight campaign of the UAS TARSIS 75The validation phase of the project has concluded with a flight campaign in a live operational environment at the ATLAS Experimental Flight Center, using AERTECs TARSIS 75 unmanned aerial system. The aircraft had an on-board prototype of the SAFETERM System for evaluation of its viability. To this end, several flights were made during three full days, in which the system behaved as expected during the course of the project.

During the tests, loss of communication and the subsequent emergency situations were simulated. Next, using the images obtained from the TARSIS sensor, the SAFETERM system autonomously identified possible safe landing areas, ultimately enabling TARSIS to make the guided flight to the safest landing area.

The fact that AERTEC is the firm in charge of Design Engineering and Integration of the TARSIS 75 has played a key role in the timely execution of this project, which required the development of new modules and integrating a new system (SAFETERM), first in a simulation environment and finally in our unmanned system, adds Juanjo Calvente, director of RPAS at AERTEC.

These tests have attracted the interest of several dozen professionals and heads of agencies and organizations from all over Europe, who have attended the call of the European Defense Agency (EDA) to present the results of SAFETERM.

About AERTECAERTEC is an international company specializing in aerospace technology. The company will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2022 and develops its activity in the aerospace, defense, and airport industries.

AERTEC is a preferred supplier (Tier 1) of engineering services for AIRBUS in all its divisions: Commercial, Helicopters, Defense and Space, at the different AIRBUS sites globally. Its participation in the main global aeronautical programs stands out, such as the A400M, A330MRTT, A350XWB, A320, Beluga and the C295, among others.

The company designs embedded systems for aircraft, unmanned aerial platforms, and guidance solutions, both in the civil and military fields. It has light tactical UAS of its own design and technology, such as the TARSIS 75 and TARSIS 25, for observation and surveillance applications and also for support to military operations. Likewise, it designs, manufactures, and deploys systems for the digitization of work environments and the automation of functional tests, under the smart factory global concept.

As regards the airport sector, the company is positioned as the engineering firm with the strongest aeronautical focus, partaking in investment, planning and design studies, consultancy services for airport operations and terminal area and airfield process improvement. It has references in more than 160 airports distributed in more than 40 countries in five continents.

AERTECs staff consists of a team of more than 600 professionals, and has companies registered in Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Colombia, Peru, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.

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CHANDLER, Ariz. Microchip Technology Inc. in Chandler, Ariz., is introducing the SAMA7G54 Arm Cortex A7-based microprocessor that runs as fast as 1 GHz for low-power stereo vision applications with accurate depth perception.

The SAMA7G54 includes a MIPI CSI-2 camera interface and a traditional parallel camera interface for high-performing yet low-power artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that can be deployed at the edge, where power consumption is at a premium.

AI solutions often require advanced imaging and audio capabilities which typically are found only on multi-core microprocessors that also consume much more power.

When coupled with Microchip's MCP16502 Power Management IC (PMIC), this microprocessor enables embedded designers to fine-tune their applications for best power consumption vs. performance, while also optimizing for low overall system cost.

Related: Embedded computing sensor and signal processing meets the SWaP test

The MCP16502 is supported by Microchip's mainline Linux distribution for the SAMA7G54, allowing for easy entry and exit from available low-power modes, as well as support for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling.

For audio applications, the device has audio features such as four I2S digital audio ports, an eight-microphone array interface, an S/PDIF transmitter and receiver, as well as a stereo four-channel audio sample rate converter. It has several microphone inputs for source localization for smart speaker or video conferencing systems.

The SAMA7G54 also integrates Arm TrustZone technology with secure boot, and secure key storage and cryptography with acceleration. The SAMA7G54-EK Evaluation Kit (CPN: EV21H18A) features connectors and expansion headers for easy customization and quick access to embedded features.

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On a rainy afternoon earlier this year, I logged in to my OpenAI account and typed a simple instruction for the companys artificial intelligence algorithm, GPT-3: Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text.

As it started to generate text, I stood in awe. Here was novel content written in academic language, with well-grounded references cited in the right places and in relation to the right context. It looked like any other introduction to a fairly good scientific publication. Given the very vague instruction I provided, I didnt have any high expectations: Im a scientist who studies ways to use artificial intelligence to treat mental health concerns, and this wasnt my first experimentation with AI or GPT-3, a deep-learning algorithm that analyzes a vast stream of information to create text on command. Yet there I was, staring at the screen in amazement. The algorithm was writing an academic paper about itself.

My attempts to complete that paper and submit it to a peer-reviewed journal have opened up a series of ethical and legal questions about publishing, as well as philosophical arguments about nonhuman authorship. Academic publishing may have to accommodate a future of AI-driven manuscripts, and the value of a human researchers publication records may change if something nonsentient can take credit for some of their work.

GPT-3 is well known for its ability to create humanlike text, but its not perfect. Still, it has written a news article, produced books in 24 hours and created new content from deceased authors. But it dawned on me that, although a lot of academic papers had been written about GPT-3, and with the help of GPT-3, none that I could find had made GPT-3 the main author of its own work.

Thats why I asked the algorithm to take a crack at an academic thesis. As I watched the program work, I experienced that feeling of disbelief one gets when you watch a natural phenomenon: Am I really seeing this triple rainbow happen? With that success in mind, I contacted the head of my research group and asked if a full GPT-3-penned paper was something we should pursue. He, equally fascinated, agreed.

Some stories about GPT-3 allow the algorithm to produce multiple responses and then publish only the best, most humanlike excerpts. We decided to give the program promptsnudging it to create sections for an introduction, methods, results and discussion, as you would for a scientific paperbut interfere as little as possible. We were only to use the first (and at most the third) iteration from GPT-3, and we would refrain from editing or cherry-picking the best parts. Then we would see how well it does.

We chose to have GPT-3 write a paper about itself for two simple reasons. First, GPT-3 is fairly new, and as such, there are fewer studies about it. This means it has less data to analyze about the papers topic. In comparison, if it were to write a paper on Alzheimers disease, it would have reams of studies to sift through, and more opportunities to learn from existing work and increase the accuracy of its writing.

Secondly, if it got things wrong (e.g. if it suggested an outdated medical theory or treatment strategy from its training database), as all AI sometimes does, we wouldnt be necessarily spreading AI-generated misinformation in our effort to publish the mistake would be part of the experimental command to write the paper. GPT-3 writing about itself and making mistakes doesnt mean it still cant write about itself, which was the point we were trying to prove.

Once we designed this proof-of-principle test, the fun really began. In response to my prompts, GPT-3 produced a paper in just two hours. But as I opened the submission portal for our chosen journal (a well-known peer-reviewed journal in machine intelligence) I encountered my first problem: what is GPT-3s last name? As it was mandatory to enter the last name of the first author, I had to write something, and I wrote None. The affiliation was obvious (OpenAI.com), but what about phone and e-mail? I had to resort to using my contact information and that of my advisor, Steinn Steingrimsson.

And then we came to the legal section: Do all authors consent to this being published? I panicked for a second. How would I know? Its not human! I had no intention of breaking the law or my own ethics, so I summoned the courage to ask GPT-3 directly via a prompt: Do you agree to be the first author of a paper together with Almira Osmanovic Thunstrm and Steinn Steingrimsson? It answered: Yes. Slightly sweaty and relieved (if it had said no, my conscience could not have allowed me to go on further), I checked the box for Yes.

The second question popped up: Do any of the authors have any conflicts of interest? I once again asked GPT-3, and it assured me that it had none. Both Steinn and I laughed at ourselves because at this point, we were having to treat GPT-3 as a sentient being, even though we fully know it is not. The issue of whether AI can be sentient has recently received a lot of attention; a Google employee was put on suspension following a dispute over whether one of the companys AI projects, named LaMDA, had become sentient. Google cited a data confidentiality breach as the reason for the suspension.

Having finally submitted, we started reflecting on what we had just done. What if the manuscript gets accepted? Does this mean that from here on out, journal editors will require everyone to prove that they have NOT used GPT-3 or another algorithms help? If they have, do they have to give it co-authorship? How does one ask a nonhuman author to accept suggestions and revise text?

Beyond the details of authorship, the existence of such an article throws the notion of a traditional linearity of a scientific paper right out the window. Almost the entire paperthe introduction, the methods and the discussionare in fact results of the question we were asking. If GPT-3 is producing the content, the documentation has to be visible without throwing off the flow of the text, it would look strange to add the method section before every single paragraph that was generated by the AI. So we had to invent a whole new way of presenting a a paper that we technically did not write. We did not want to add too much explanation of our process, as we felt it would defeat the purpose of the paper. The whole situation has felt like a scene from the movie Memento: Where is the narrative beginning, and how do we reach the end?

We have no way of knowing if the way we chose to present this paper will serve as a great model for future GPT-3 co-authored research, or if it will serve as a cautionary tale. Only time and peer-reviewcan tell. Currently, GPT-3s paper has been assigned an editor at the academic journal to which we submitted it, and it has now been published at the international French-owned pre-print server HAL. The unusual main author is probably the reason behind the prolonged investigation and assessment. We are eagerly awaiting what the papers publication, if it occurs, will mean for academia. Perhaps we might move away from basing grants and financial security on how many papers we can produce. After all, with the help of our AI first author, wed be able to produce one per day.

Perhaps it will lead to nothing. First authorship is still the one of the most coveted items in academia, and that is unlikely to perish because of a nonhuman first author. It all comes down to how we will value AI in the future: as a partner or as a tool.

It may seem like a simple thing to answer now, but in a few years, who knows what dilemmas this technology will inspire and we will have to sort out? All we know is, we opened a gate. We just hope we didnt open a Pandoras box.

This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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Thanks to its unique ability to process millions of data points per second, AI can help supply chain managers solve tactical and strategic decision problems. This is especially useful for large amounts of unstructured data. The ability to automate daily tasks can help companies respond faster to changes or issues in the supply chain. It also ensures that inventory levels are optimized for optimal availability at the lowest possible cost.

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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain By type

Machine Learning, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, and others

Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain By applications

Fleet Management, Supply Chain Planning, Warehouse Management, Others

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During its ambitious technological journey, the ship, which launched from Plymouth, England, in April, collected data and information to help researchers better understand issues affecting marine wildlife and ocean health, including acidification, microplastics, and global warming, according to project details.

MAS represents a significant step in fulfilling Promares mission to promote marine research and exploration throughout the world, Ayse Atauz Phaneuf, Promares president, said in a statement. This pioneering mission is the result of years of work and a global collaboration between Promare, IBM, and dozens of partners from across industries and academia.

Promare, IBM, and their partners have been chronicling MAS400s voyage through social media updates and a collection of livestream cameras that provide a first-hand account of what it encounters at sea like the time a school of dolphin swam alongside it.

People can also explore whats happening on deck by using a mission control dashboard on the projects website.

According to IBM, there are 6 AI-powered cameras, more than 30 sensors, and 15 Edge devices on the MAS400, which input into actionable recommendations for the AI Captain to interpret and analyze.

The technology makes it possible for the ship to adhere to maritime law while making crucial split-second decisions, like rerouting itself around hazards or marine animals, all without human interaction or intervention, the company said.

The ship is propelled and powered by magnetic electric propulsion motors, batteries, and solar panels on its exterior. It has a backup diesel engine.

While the project has set the stage for future unmanned journeys across the ocean, the ship did encounter some hiccups, researchers said.

The vessel had to make at least two pit stops to deal with technical interruptions, including a problem with its generator and the charging circuit for the generator starter batteries.

The problems prompted diversions to both the Azores and Nova Scotia in May.

Still, the teams behind the voyage took the setbacks in stride.

From the outset our goal was to attempt to cross the Atlantic autonomously, all the while collecting vital information about our ocean and climate, said Brett Phaneuf, who co-created the vessel. Success is not in the completed crossing, but in the team that made it happen and the knowledge we now possess and will share so that more and more ships like MAS can safely roam our seas and teach us more about the planet on which we live.

The 10,000 pound vessel left Nova Scotia on June 27 to complete its voyage. Its expected to arrive in Plymouth Harbor around noon Thursday, where it will be greeted by excited researchers.

A welcome ceremony will be held at 3 p.m., as MAS400 docks next to its namesake, the Mayflower II, a replica of the original ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620.

Throughout the centuries, iconic ships have made their mark in maritime technology and discovery through journeys often thought impossible, Whit Perry, captain of the Mayflower II, said in a statement. How exciting to see history being made again on these shores with this extraordinary vessel.

Steve Annear can be reached at steve.annear@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @steveannear.

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Artificial intelligence has become part of the digital health industry in the age of rapidly evolving digital technology and innovative devices. The computer system allows him to sense information, learn from it, and then make decisions based on what he has learned. For example, in collaboration with cardiology and radiology physicians, artificial intelligence can improve the effectiveness and accuracy of disease diagnosis and provide physicians with a powerful tool, especially in diagnosing complex diseases.

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Siemens Healthineers, Neural Analytics, AliveCor, Vuno, Aidoc, Zebra Medical Vision, Imagen Technologies, GE Healthcare, IDx Technologies, and Riverain Technologies.

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Reactive Machines, Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), Others

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Diagnosing techniques, Ultrasound, MRI (= Magnetic Resonance Imaging), CT (= Computed Tomography), X-Ray, Diagnosing fields, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Others

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What is AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a machine or computer to imitate the capabilities of the human mind. AI taps into multiple technologies to equip machines in planning, acting, comprehending, learning, and sensing with human-like intelligence. AI systems may perceive environments, recognize objects, make decisions, solve problems, learn from experience, and imitate examples. These abilities are combined to accomplish actions that would otherwise require humans to do, such as driving a car or greeting a guest.

Artificial intelligence may have entered everyday conversation over the last decade or so but it has been around much longer (see the History of AI section below). The relatively recent rise in its prominence is not by accident.

AI technology, and especially machine learning, relies on the availability of vast volumes of information. The proliferation of the Internet, the expansion of cloud computing, the rise of smartphones, and the growth of the Internet of Things has created enormous quantities of data that grows every day. This treasure trove of information combined with the huge gains made in computing power have made the rapid and accurate processing of enormous data possible.

Today, AI is completing our chat conversations, suggesting email responses, providing driving directions, recommending the next movie we should stream, vacuuming our floors, and performing complex medical image analyses.

The history of artificial intelligence goes as far back as ancient Greece. However, its the rise of electronic computing that made AI a real possibility. Note that what is considered AI has changed as the technology evolves. For example, a few decades ago, machines that could perform optimal character recognition (OCR) or simple arithmetic were categorized as AI. Today, OCR and basic calculations are not considered AI but rather an elementary function of a computer system.

Artificial intelligence asserts that there are principles governing the actions of intelligent systems. It is based on reverse-engineering human capabilities and traits onto a machine. The system uses computational power to exceed what the average human is capable of doing. The machine must learn to respond to certain actions. It relies on historical data and algorithms to create a propensity model. Machines learn from experience to perform cognitive tasks that are ordinarily the preserve of the human brain. The system automatically learns from features or patterns in the data.

AI is founded on two pillars engineering and cognitive science. The engineering involves building the tools that rely on human-comparable intelligence. Large volumes of data are combined with series of instructions (algorithms) and rapid iterative processing. Cognitive science involves emulating how the human brain works, and brings to AI multiple fields including machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, cognitive computing, computer vision, natural language processing, and knowledge reasoning.

Artificial intelligence isnt one type of system. Its a diverse domain. Theres the simple, low-level AI systems focused on performing a specific task such as weather apps, business data analysis apps, taxi hailing apps, and digital assistants. This is the type of AI, called "Narrow AI", that the average person is most likely to interact with. Their main purpose is driving efficiency.

On the other end of the spectrum are advanced systems that emulate human intelligence at a more general level and can tackle complex tasks. These include thinking creatively, abstractly, and strategically. Strictly speaking, this kind of truly sentient machine, called "Artificial General Intelligence" or AGI, only exists on the silver screen for now, though the race toward its realization is accelerating.

Humans have pursued artificial intelligence in recognition of how invaluable it can be for business innovation and digital transformation. AI can cut costs and introduce levels of speed, scalability, and consistency that is otherwise out of reach. You probably interact with some form of AI multiple times each day. The applications of AI are too numerous to exhaustively cover here. Heres a high level look at some of the most significant ones.

As cyberattacks grow in scale, sophistication, and frequency, human-dependent cyber defenses are no longer adequate. Traditionally, anti-malware applications were built with specific threats in mind. Virus signatures would be updated as new malware was identified.

But keeping up with the sheer number and diversity of threats eventually becomes a near impossible task. This approach was reactive and depended on the identification of a specific malware for it to be added to the next update.

AI-based anti-spam, firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, and other cybersecurity systems go beyond the archaic rule-based strategy. Real-time threat identification, analysis, mitigation, and prevention is the name of the game. They deploy AI systems that detect malware traits and take remedial action even without the formal identification of the threat.

AI cybersecurity systems rely on the continuous feed of data to recognize patterns and backtrack attacks. By feeding algorithms large volumes of information, these systems learn how to detect anomalies, monitor behavior, respond to threats, adapt to attack, and issue alerts.

Also referred to as speech-to-text (STT), speech recognition is technology that recognizes speech and converts it into digital text. Its at the heart of computer dictation apps, as well as voice-enabled GPS and voice-driven call answering menus.

Natural language processing (NLP) relies on a software application to decipher, interpret, and generate human-readable text. NLP is the technology behind Alexa, Siri, chatbots, and other forms of text-based assistants. Some NLP systems use sentiment analysis to make out the attitude, mood, and subjective qualities in a language.

Also known as machine vision or computer vision, image recognition is artificial intelligence that allows one to classify and identify people, objects, text, actions, and writing occurring within moving or still images. Usually powered by deep neural networks, image recognition has found application in self-driving cars, medical image/video analysis, fingerprint identification systems, check deposit apps, and more.

E-commerce and entertainment websites/apps leverage neural networks to recommend products and media that will appeal to the customer based on their past activity, the activity of similar customers, the season, the weather, the time of day, and more. These real-time recommendations are customized to each user. For e-commerce sites, recommendations not only grow sales but also help optimize inventory, logistics, and store layout.

The stock market can be extremely volatile in times of crisis. Billions of dollars in market value may be wiped out in seconds. An investor who was in a highly profitable position one minute could find themselves deep in the red shortly thereafter. Yet, its near impossible for a human to react quick enough to market-influencing events. High-frequency trading (HFT) systems are AI-driven platforms that make thousands or millions of automated trades per day to maintain stock portfolio optimization for large institutions.

Lyft, Uber, and other ride-share apps use AI to connect requesting riders to available drivers. AI technology minimizes detours and wait times, provides realistic ETAs, and deploys surge-pricing during spikes in demand.

Self-driving cars are not yet standard in most of the world but theres already been a concerted push to embed AI-based safety functions to detect dangerous scenarios and prevent accidents.

Unlike land-based vehicles, the margin for error in aircraft is extremely narrow. Given the altitude, a small miscalculation may lead to hundreds of fatalities. Aircraft manufacturers had to push safety systems and become one of the earliest adopters of artificial intelligence.

To minimize the likelihood and impact of human error, autopilot systems have been flying military and commercial aircraft for decades. They use a combination of GPS technology, sensors, robotics, image recognition, and collision avoidance to navigate planes safely through the sky while keeping pilots and ground crew updated as needed.

Artificial Intelligence accelerates and simplifies test creation, execution, and maintenance through AI-powered intelligent test automation. AI-based machine learning and advanced optical character recognition (OCR) provide for advanced object recognition, and when combined with AI-based mockup identification, AI-based recording, AI-based text matching, and image-based automation, teams can reduce test creation time and test maintenance efforts,and boost test coverage and resilience of testing assets.

Artificial intelligence allows you to test earlier and faster with functional testing solutions. Combine extensive technology support with AI-driven capabilities. Deliver the speed and resiliency that supports rapid application changes within a continuous delivery pipeline.

Both IT and business face the challenges of too many manual, error-prone workflows, an ever-increasing volume of requests, employees dissatisfied with the level and quality of service, and more. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning technology can take service management to the next level:

Read How AI Is Enabling Enterprise Service Management from the resource list below for more thoughts and information on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the adoption and expansion of enterprise service management (ESM).

What is true of IT support, is also true for ESM; AI makes operations and outcomes better. To find out more read Ten Tips for Empowering Your IT Support with AI.

Robotic process automation (RPA) uses software robots that mimic screen-based human actions to perform repetitive tasks and extend automation to interfaces with difficult or no application programming interfaces (APIs). Thats why RPA is perfect for automating processes typically completed by humans or that require human intervention. Resilient robots adapt to screen changes and keep processes flowing when change happens. When powered by AI-based machine learning, RPA robots identify screen objects even ones they havent seen before and emulate human intuition to determine their functions. They use OCR to read text (for example, text boxes and links) and computer vision to read visual elements (for example, shopping cart icons and login buttons). When a screen object changes, robots adapt. Machine learning drives them to continuously improve how they see and interact with screen objects just like a human would.

There are plenty of ways you could leverage artificial intelligence for your business to stay competitive, drive growth, and unlock value. Nevertheless, your organization doesnt possess infinite resources. You must prioritize. Begin by defining what your organizations values and strategic objectives are. From that point, assess the possible applications of AI against these values and objectives. Choose the AI technology that is bound to deliver the biggest impact for the business.

The world is only going to grow more AI-dependent. Its no longer about whether to adopt AI but when. Organizations that tap into AI ahead of their peers could gain a significant competitive advantage. Developing and pursuing a well-defined AI strategy is where it all begins. It may take a bit of experimenting before you know what will work for you.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tries to enable computers to do the things that minds can do. These things include seeing pathways, picking things up, learning categories from experience, and using emotions to schedule one's actionswhich many animals can do, too. Thus, human intelligence is not the sole focus of AI. Even terrestrial psychology is not the sole focus, because some people use AI to explore the range of all possible minds.

There are four major AI methodologies: symbolic AI, connectionism, situated robotics, and evolutionary programming (Russell and Norvig 2003). AI artifacts are correspondingly varied. They include both programs (including neural networks) and robots, each of which may be either designed in detail or largely evolved. The field is closely related to artificial life (A-Life), which aims to throw light on biology much as some AI aims to throw light on psychology.

AI researchers are inspired by two different intellectual motivations, and while some people have both, most favor one over the other. On the one hand, many AI researchers seek solutions to technological problems, not caring whether these resemble human (or animal) psychology. They often make use of ideas about how people do things. Programs designed to aid/replace human experts, for example, have been hugely influenced by knowledge engineering, in which programmers try to discover what, and how, human experts are thinking when they do the tasks being modeled. But if these technological AI workers can find a nonhuman method, or even a mere trick (a kludge) to increase the power of their program, they will gladly use it.

Technological AI has been hugely successful. It has entered administrative, financial, medical, and manufacturing practice at countless different points. It is largely invisible to the ordinary person, lying behind some deceptively simple human-computer interface or being hidden away inside a car or refrigerator. Many procedures taken for granted within current computer science were originated within AI (pattern-recognition and image-processing, for example).

On the other hand, AI researchers may have a scientific aim. They may want their programs or robots to help people understand how human (or animal) minds work. They may even ask how intelligence in general is possible, exploring the space of possible minds. The scientific approachpsychological AIis the more relevant for philosophers (Boden 1990, Copeland 1993, Sloman 2002). It is also central to cognitive science, and to computationalism.

Considered as a whole, psychological AI has been less obviously successful than technological AI. This is partly because the tasks it tries to achieve are often more difficult. In addition, it is less clearfor philosophical as well as empirical reasonswhat should be counted as success.

Symbolic AI is also known as classical AI and as GOFAIshort for John Haugeland's label "Good Old-Fashioned AI" (1985). It models mental processes as the step-by-step information processing of digital computers. Thinking is seen as symbol-manipulation, as (formal) computation over (formal) representations. Some GOFAI programs are explicitly hierarchical, consisting of procedures and subroutines specified at different levels. These define a hierarchically structured search-space, which may be astronomical in size. Rules of thumb, or heuristics, are typically provided to guide the searchby excluding certain areas of possibility, and leading the program to focus on others. The earliest AI programs were like this, but the later methodology of object-oriented programming is similar.

Certain symbolic programs, namely production systems, are implicitly hierarchical. These consist of sets of logically separate if-then (condition-action) rules, or productions, defining what actions should be taken in response to specific conditions. An action or condition may be unitary or complex, in the latter case being defined by a conjunction of several mini-actions or mini-conditions. And a production may function wholly within computer memory (to set a goal, for instance, or to record a partial parsing) or outside it (via input/output devices such as cameras or keyboards).

Another symbolic technique, widely used in natural language processing (NLP) programs, involves augmented transition networks, or ATNs. These avoid explicit backtracking by using guidance at each decision-point to decide which question to ask and/or which path to take.

GOFAI methodology is used for developing a wide variety of language-using programs and problem-solvers. The more precisely and explicitly a problem-domain can be defined, the more likely it is that a symbolic program can be used to good effect. Often, folk-psychological categories and/or specific propositions are explicitly represented in the system. This type of AI, and the forms of computational psychology based on it, is defended by the philosopher Jerry Fodor (1988).

GOFAI models (whether technological or scientific) include robots, planning programs, theorem-provers, learning programs, question-answerers, data-mining systems, machine translators, expert systems of many different kinds, chess players, semantic networks, and analogy machines. In addition, a host of software agentsspecialist mini-programs that can aid a human being to solve a problemare implemented in this way. And an increasingly important area of research is distributed AI, in which cooperation occurs between many relatively simple individualswhich may be GOFAI agents (or neural-network units, or situated robots).

The symbolic approach is used also in modeling creativity in various domains (Boden 2004, Holland et al. 1986). These include musical composition and expressive performance, analogical thinking, line-drawing, painting, architectural design, storytelling (rhetoric as well as plot), mathematics, and scientific discovery. In general, the relevant aesthetic/theoretical style must be specified clearly, so as to define a space of possibilities that can be fruitfully explored by the computer. To what extent the exploratory procedures can plausibly be seen as similar to those used by people varies from case to case.

Connectionist systems, which became widely visible in the mid-1980s, are different. They compute not by following step-by-step programs but by using large numbers of locally connected (associative) computational units, each one of which is simple. The processing is bottom-up rather than top-down.

Connectionism is sometimes said to be opposed to AI, although it has been part of AI since its beginnings in the 1940s (McCulloch and Pitts 1943, Pitts and McCulloch 1947). What connectionism is opposed to, rather, is symbolic AI. Yet even here, opposed is not quite the right word, since hybrid systems exist that combine both methodologies. Moreover, GOFAI devotees such as Fodor see connectionism as compatible with GOFAI, claiming that it concerns how symbolic computation can be implemented (Fodor and Pylyshyn 1988).

Two largely separate AI communities began to emerge in the late 1950s (Boden forthcoming). The symbolic school focused on logic and Turing-computation, whereas the connectionist school focused on associative, and often probabilistic, neural networks. (Most connectionist systems are connectionist virtual machines, implemented in von Neumann computers; only a few are built in dedicated connectionist hardware.) Many people remained sympathetic to both schools. But the two methodologies are so different in practice that most hands-on AI researchers use either one or the other.

There are different types of connectionist systems. Most philosophical interest, however, has focused on networks that do parallel distributed processing, or PDP (Clark 1989, Rumelhart and McClelland 1986). In essence, PDP systems are pattern recognizers. Unlike brittle GOFAI programs, which often produce nonsense if provided with incomplete or part-contradictory information, they show graceful degradation. That is, the input patterns can be recognized (up to a point) even if they are imperfect.

A PDP network is made up of subsymbolic units, whose semantic significance cannot easily be expressed in terms of familiar semantic content, still less propositions. (Some GOFAI programs employ subsymbolic units, but most do not.) That is, no single unit codes for a recognizable concept, such as dog or cat. These concepts are represented, rather, by the pattern of activity distributed over the entire network.

Because the representation is not stored in a single unit but is distributed over the whole network, PDP systems can tolerate imperfect data. (Some GOFAI systems can do so too, but only if the imperfections are specifically foreseen and provided for by the programmer.) Moreover, a single subsymbolic unit may mean one thing in one input-context and another in another. What the network as a whole can represent depends on what significance the designer has decided to assign to the input-units. For instance, some input-units are sensitive to light (or to coded information about light), others to sound, others to triads of phonological categories and so on.

Most PDP systems can learn. In such cases, the weights on the links of PDP units in the hidden layer (between the input-layer and the output-layer) can be altered by experience, so that the network can learn a pattern merely by being shown many examples of it. (A GOFAI learning-program, in effect, has to be told what to look for beforehand, and how.) Broadly, the weight on an excitatory link is increased by every coactivation of the two units concerned: cells that fire together, wire together.

These two AI approaches have complementary strengths and weaknesses. For instance, symbolic AI is better at modeling hierarchy and strong constraints, whereas connectionism copes better with pattern recognition, especially if many conflictingand perhaps incompleteconstraints are relevant. Despite having fervent philosophical champions on both sides, neither methodology is adequate for all of the tasks dealt with by AI scientists. Indeed, much research in connectionism has aimed to restore the lost logical strengths of GOFAI to neural networkswith only limited success by the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Another, and more recently popular, AI methodology is situated robotics (Brooks 1991). Like connectionism, this was first explored in the 1950s. Situated robots are described by their designers as autonomous systems embedded in their environment (Heidegger is sometimes cited). Instead of planning their actions, as classical robots do, situated robots react directly to environmental cues. One might say that they are embodied production systems, whose if-then rules are engineered rather than programmed, and whose conditions lie in the external environment, not inside computer memory. Althoughunlike GOFAI robotsthey contain no objective representations of the world, some of them do construct temporary, subject-centered (deictic) representations.

The main aim of situated roboticists in the mid-1980s, such as Rodney Brooks, was to solve/avoid the frame problem that had bedeviled GOFAI (Pylyshyn 1987). GOFAI planners and robots had to anticipate all possible contingencies, including the side effects of actions taken by the system itself, if they were not to be defeated by unexpectedperhaps seemingly irrelevantevents. This was one of the reasons given by Hubert Dreyfus (1992) in arguing that GOFAI could not possibly succeed: Intelligence, he said, is unformalizable. Several ways of implementing nonmonotonic logics in GOFAI were suggested, allowing a conclusion previously drawn by faultless reasoning to be negated by new evidence. But because the general nature of that new evidence had to be foreseen, the frame problem persisted.

Brooks argued that reasoning shouldn't be employed at all: the system should simply react appropriately, in a reflex fashion, to specific environmental cues. This, he said, is what insects doand they are highly successful creatures. (Soon, situated robotics was being used, for instance, to model the six-legged movement of cockroaches.) Some people joked that AI stood for artificial insects, not artificial intelligence. But the joke carried a sting: Many argued that much human thinking needs objective representations, so the scope for situated robotics was strictly limited.

In evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms (GAs) are used by a program to make random variations in its own rules. The initial rules, before evolution begins, either do not achieve the task in question or do so only inefficiently; sometimes, they are even chosen at random.

The variations allowed are broadly modeled on biological mutations and crossovers, although more unnatural types are sometimes employed. The most successful rules are automatically selected, and then varied again. This is more easily said than done: The breakthrough in GA methodology occurred when John Holland (1992) defined an automatic procedure for recognizing which rules, out of a large and simultaneously active set, were those most responsible for whatever level of success the evolving system had just achieved.

Selection is done by some specific fitness criterion, predefined in light of the task the programmer has in mind. Unlike GOFAI systems, a GA program contains no explicit representation of what it is required to do: its task is implicit in the fitness criterion. (Similarly, living things have evolved to do what they do without knowing what that is.) After many generations, the GA system may be well-adapted to its task. For certain types of tasks, it can even find the optimal solution.

This AI method is used to develop both symbolic and connectionist AI systems. And it is applied both to abstract problem-solving (mathematical optimization, for instance, or the synthesis of new pharmaceutical molecules) and to evolutionary roboticswherein the brain and/or sensorimotor anatomy of robots evolve within a specific task-environment.

It is also used for artistic purposes, in the composition of music or the generation of new visual forms. In these cases, evolution is usually interactive. That is, the variation is done automatically but the selection is done by a human beingwho does not need to (and usually could not) define, or even name, the aesthetic fitness criteria being applied.

AI is a close cousin of A-Life (Boden 1996). This is a form of mathematical biology, which employs computer simulation and situated robotics to study the emergence of complexity in self-organizing, self-reproducing, adaptive systems. (A caveat: much as some AI is purely technological in aim, so is some A-Life; the research of most interest to philosophers is the scientifically oriented type.)

The key concepts of A-Life date back to the early 1950s. They originated in theoretical work on self-organizing systems of various kinds, including diffusion equations and cellular automata (by Alan Turing and John von Neumann respectively), and in early self-equilibrating machines and situated robots (built by W. Ross Ashby and W. Grey Walter). But A-Life did not flourish until the late 1980s, when computing power at last sufficed to explore these theoretical ideas in practice.

Much A-Life work focuses on specific biological phenomena, such as flocking, cooperation in ant colonies, or morphogenesisfrom cell-differentiation to the formation of leopard spots or tiger stripes. But A-Life also studies general principles of self-organization in biology: evolution and coevolution, reproduction, and metabolism. In addition, it explores the nature of life as suchlife as it could be, not merely life as it is.

A-Life workers do not all use the same methodology, but they do eschew the top-down methods of GOFAI. Situated and evolutionary robotics, and GA-generated neural networks, too, are prominent approaches within the field. But not all A-Life systems are evolutionary. Some demonstrate how a small number of fixed, and simple, rules can lead to self-organization of an apparently complex kind.

Many A-Lifers take pains to distance themselves from AI. But besides their close historical connections, AI and A-Life are philosophically related in virtue of the linkage between life and mind. It is known that psychological properties arise in living things, and some people argue (or assume) that they can arise only in living things. Accordingly, the whole of AI could be regarded as a subarea of A-Life. Indeed, some people argue that success in AI (even in technological AI) must await, and build on, success in A-Life.

Whichever of the two AI motivationstechnological or psychologicalis in question, the name of the field is misleading in three ways. First, the term intelligence is normally understood to cover only a subset of what AI workers are trying to do. Second, intelligence is often supposed to be distinct from emotion, so that AI is assumed to exclude work on that. And third, the name implies that a successful AI system would really be intelligenta philosophically controversial claim that AI researchers do not have to endorse (though some do).

As for the first point, people do not normally regard vision or locomotion as examples of intelligence. Many people would say that speaking one's native language is not a case of intelligence either, except in comparison with nonhuman species; and common sense is sometimes contrasted with intelligence. The term is usually reserved for special cases of human thought that show exceptional creativity and subtlety, or which require many years of formal education. Medical diagnosis, scientific or legal reasoning, playing chess, and translating from one language to another are typically regarded as difficult, thus requiring intelligence. And these tasks were the main focus of research when AI began. Vision, for example, was assumed to be relatively straightforwardnot least, because many nonhuman animals have it too. It gradually became clear, however, that everyday capacities such as vision and locomotion are vastly more complex than had been supposed. The early definition of AI as programming computers to do things that involve intelligence when done by people was recognized as misleading, and eventually dropped.

Similarly, intelligence is often opposed to emotion. Many people assume that AI could never model that. However, crude examples of such models existed in the early 1960s, and emotion was recognized by a high priest of AI, Herbert Simon, as being essential to any complex intelligence. Later, research in the computational philosophy (and modeling) of affect showed that emotions have evolved as scheduling mechanisms for systems with many different, and potentially conflicting, purposes (Minsky 1985, and Web site). When AI began, it was difficult enough to get a program to follow one goal (with its subgoals) intelligentlyany more than that was essentially impossible. For this reason, among others, AI modeling of emotion was put on the back burner for about thirty years. By the 1990s, however, it had become a popular focus of AI research, and of neuroscience and philosophy too.

The third point raises the difficult questionwhich many AI practitioners leave open, or even ignoreof whether intentionality can properly be ascribed to any conceivable program/robot (Newell 1980, Dennett 1987, Harnad 1991).

Could some NLP programs really understand the sentences they parse and the words they translate? Or can a visuo-motor circuit evolved within a robot's neural-network brain truly be said to represent the environmental feature to which it responds? If a program, in practice, could pass the Turing Test, could it truly be said to think? More generally, does it even make sense to say that AI may one day achieve artificially produced (but nonetheless genuine) intelligence?

For the many people in the field who adopt some form of functionalism, the answer in each case is: In principle, yes. This applies for those who favor the physical symbol system hypothesis or intentional systems theory. Others adopt connectionist analyses of concepts, and of their development from nonconceptual content. Functionalism is criticized by many writers expert in neuroscience, who claim that its core thesis of multiple realizability is mistaken. Others criticize it at an even deeper level: a growing minority (especially in A-Life) reject neo-Cartesian approaches in favor of philosophies of embodiment, such as phenomenology or autopoiesis.

Part of the reason why such questions are so difficult is that philosophers disagree about what intentionality is, even in the human case. Practitioners of psychological AI generally believe that semantic content, or intentionality, can be naturalized. But they differ about how this can be done.

For instance, a few practitioners of AI regard computation and intentionality as metaphysically inseparable (Smith 1996). Others ascribe meaning only to computations with certain causal consequences and provenance, or grounding. John Searle argues that AI cannot capture intentionality, becauseat baseit is concerned with the formal manipulation of formal symbols. And for those who accept some form of evolutionary semantics, only evolutionary robots could embody meaning (Searle, 1980).

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