What is AI?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of powerful contemporary data technologies that are revolutionising our approach to many long-standing hard problems. Some of these problems are traditionally in the realm of human cognition (such as image and language processing), but many are scientific problems out of the range of human abilities (such as predicting molecular structure, virus evolution or cyber threat propagation).
AI raises big challenges in mathematics. To model real-world systems, applied mathematics has traditionally solved systems of equations that encode the laws of nature uncovered by science. Today, this approach can be combined with AI methods, taking advantage of large data sets where explicit ‘laws of nature’ may not be known.
