Artificial intelligence (AI) has for decades captured our collective imaginations as we consider both the opportunities – and threats – posed by “thinking” machines. Following huge recent advances in this much-hyped field, AI now features in our daily lives: as virtual assistants on our smartphones, within our Google searches and translations, and, perhaps in the near future, in our self-driving cars and home-help robots.
AI is a broad term encompassing various ways in which computers process and find patterns within complex information, and generate...