Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important
to companies and institutions of all sizes and industries. AI is
reshaping the business and consumer landscape -- from the
application of machine learning for speech recognition in the
retail industry (for ordering products from smart home devices), to
the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for
computer vision in the robotics and automobile industries (enabling
autonomous driving), and the use of neural networks in the
pharmaceutical industry (to identify new targets in drug
discovery).
Between 2012 and 2017, patent application filings claiming AI
technologies grew by an average of 28% per year. Although AI
technologies are being developed in virtually every industry, the
bulk of these filings are sectors including telecommunications,
transportation, personal electronic devices and computing, life and
medical sciences, security, document management, manufacturing, and
engineering. Key AI
