Those with their finger on the pulse of developments in AI will often say that we are living in a ‘second machine age’ – a phrase which evokes the classic Sci-Fi setting in which robots live and work amongst us.
This conception of the future is so rooted in popular culture that the best-known applications of AI are nearly always film scenes made manifest. Think self-driving cars, burger-flipping automatons, and shelf-stacking humanoids.
